Hi, I have a problem backing up my music collection, that is stored on a fat32 formated hard drive to my ext3 formated backup drive (ext3 to ext3 works like a charm :) ). The problem is, that rsync always transfers all of the files and not only the one that were changed/added. I know of the limitations fat32 has but I can't find the correct options to run the backup. Thanks Thomas
Thomas Ebert wrote:> > Hi, > > I have a problem backing up my music collection, that is stored on a > fat32 formated hard drive to my ext3 formated backup drive > (ext3 to ext3 > works like a charm :) ). > > The problem is, that rsync always transfers all of the files and not > only the one that were changed/added. > > I know of the limitations fat32 has but I can't find the > correct options > to run the backup. > > Thanks > > Thomas > --Probably need something like (from man) --modify-window=NUM compare mod-times with reduced accuracy To store time-of-day in 16 bits, Windows can only handle even seconds. (or is it odd?) Maybe any choice is wrong ;) --modify-window=1 is probably adequate personally, I' use something like --modify-window=7
Thomas Ebert wrote:> I have a problem backing up my music collection, that is stored on a > fat32 formated hard drive to my ext3 formated backup drive (ext3 to ext3 > works like a charm :) ). > > The problem is, that rsync always transfers all of the files and not > only the one that were changed/added. > > I know of the limitations fat32 has but I can't find the correct options > to run the backup.I experienced a problem along these lines some time back. My solution at the time was to use the --checksum feature : -c, --checksum skip based on checksum, not mod-time & size -- Daniel Maher <dma+rsynclist AT witbe DOT net>