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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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