Backing up from fat32 to ext3
Daniel Maher
dma+rsynclist at witbe.net
Fri Nov 28 14:26:15 GMT 2008
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
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Daniel Maher <dma+rsynclist AT witbe DOT net>
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