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On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:32 PM, <ny6p01@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:12:40PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> I'm looking for what rsync options I can use to copy existing files |
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>> on an ext3 file system to an external eSATA drive formatted with vfat. |
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>> I think I want to match only the name, creation date & file size. The |
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>> eSATA drive needs to be vfat due to limitations of the audio/video |
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>> device it will be plugged into. |
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>> Thanks in advance for any ideas. |
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>> Cheers, |
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>> Mark |
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> FWIW, I routinely backup important directories with rsync from ext3 and ext4 |
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> file systems to vfat, with no additional options. The command I use is: |
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> sudo rsync -vvvruxi --size-only --exclude-from=/home/rh/rsync-home-excl-list /home/rh/ /mnt/Datastor/Gentoo/ |
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> for the home directory. |
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> HTH. |
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> Terry |
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Thanks Terry. I'm through about 30GB of the 400GB I want to back up. |
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It looks like it's working. |
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The --size-only option was what I needed. (Assuming it completes |
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without any other problems.) |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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NOTE: To others discussing the various positives and negatives of |
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Windows file systems please note that I had no choice in the matter. |
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The only thing this piece of equipment accepts on it's USB port is |
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VFAT. |
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