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Re: [LUG] rsync to usb disk

 

james kilty wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 22:16 +0100, Simon Waters wrote:
> 
>> You backing up to a non-native file system by any chance?
> Yes FAT32.
>> Microsoft file systems are notorious for not coping with sensible file
>> names. What is really sad is that they still object to "con" "lpt1" etc
>> if the software you use happens to work with the old API. All deeply
>> messy in the name of backwards compatibility.
> Thank you.

You could create a tarball of everything first. rsync should *do the
right thing* with a binary delta of the tarball and you should still
gain lots of transfer efficiency with the added benefit of your
filenames/perms being kept well away from FAT32.

Robin

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