wine users - Apr 2008 - rsyncing Wine fails

OK, I'm pretty certain this is actually an issue with my hard drive, but 
I just want to check to make absolutely certain that nothing Wine does 
could cause this problem.

I have just set about getting a regular backup of my PC (yes, I know, 
consider my wrists to be well and truly slapped for taking nearly two 
years to get around to this) and am trying to use rsync to copy files to 
a Western Digital Passport USB HDD.  However, when I try the following 
command

rsync -a /home/david/ /media/Portable/backup/

it chokes when it gets to the .wine folder - I/O error on every single 
file and folder within .wine - trying a simple

cp -r /home/david/ /media/Portable/backup/

has the same effect.  This is repeatable and only .wine is affected - 
which is why I wonder if it could be something about the way Wine is set 
up.  Could *anything* wine does *possibly* cause this?

Many thanks, in advance,

David Shaw

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:33 PM, David Shaw <dj.shaw at btconnect.com>
wrote:
>  it chokes when it gets to the .wine folder - I/O error on every single
file
> and folder within .wine - trying a simple
>
>  cp -r /home/david/ /media/Portable/backup/
>
>  has the same effect.  This is repeatable and only .wine is affected -
which
> is why I wonder if it could be something about the way Wine is set up.
Not terribly likely...
What filesystem is your backup volume?
Does it allow filenames that start with . ?
i.e. does
   touch /media/Portable/backup/.foobar
succeed?