Re: rsync trouble

I've done some tests.

   1. copied some data to the USB drive and got some errors
   2. copied the same data to /tmp and no errors

I think this has something to do with the vfat file system. Maybe it has
something to do with long file names. All the data came from a Mac which
uses hfs+ as a file system. That may allow longer file names.

At this point I'm not sure what to do. Maybe there is an option to
truncate long file names in rsync. I'll have to do more searching.

Peter Michael wrote:
> Never had any luck using rsync with usb...why dont you just mount
> it..linux sees usb drives as scsi so it will be sda1 or something like
> that, once mounted you can write to it to your hearts content.
> Pete
>
> */Damien Hull <dhull@digitaloverload.net>/* wrote:
>
> I'm trying to rsync data to a USB drive and it's not working.
> Here's the
> command.
>
> rsync -av --progress /data/backup /media/usbdrive/
>
> Some of the data gets copied. However, there are a lot of "chmod"
> errors. At some point I get "failed: Invalid argument (22)" and rsync
> stops working. I think it was trying to do something with mkstemp.
> I'm
> not sure what that is. I've done some searching on Google but no luck.
>
> I may end up using rsync to copy parts of the data. Maybe I can track
> down which directory it doesn't like. I'm also thinking about "cp". I
> don't want to use that because there's 48gig's of data.
>
> If it helps I'm on CentOS 4.3. It's my file server. :-)
>
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Received on Sun Sep 10 15:49:03 2006