Backing up from fat32 to ext3

[Thomas Ebert]

Hi,

thanks for your replies. -c seems to take a veeery long time to generate 
the file list.

Currently I'm using

-vrt --modify-window=7

 and it's still not working.

Am I missing anything? What options do you reccomend?

Thomas



Tony Abernethy schrieb:
> 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
>