<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/1/13 Paul Slootman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul%2Brsync@wurtel.net">paul+rsync@wurtel.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed 13 Jan 2010, Thomas Evangelidis wrote:<br>
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> I want to backup my Documents directory and instead of copying everything to<br>
> my external disk I tried to use this command line to create an incremental<br>
> backup with rsync on my external disk:<br>
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</div>You _did_ format the external disk with a filesystem that understands<br>
hardlinks, yes? Such disks usually come preformatted with FAT which<br>
doesn't support many Unix concepts.<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br>Good point! What's the recommended filesystem? Which tool do you suggest for reformatting, is GParted ok?<br><br>