Re: rsync trouble

From: Greg Madden <pabi@gci.net>
Date: Sun Sep 10 2006 - 17:50:51 AKDT

On Sunday 10 September 2006 17:17, bryanm@acsalaska.net wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 02:46:09PM -0800, 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.
>
> vfat doesn't support file permissions, does it? Perhaps rsync is
> expecting a more full-featured filesystem.

No it doesn't. You will see lots of errors rsyncing to a vfat volume, It
shouldn't completely fail though. I have formated my USB key drives ext3
since file attributes are more important to me than platform
compatability.

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Greg Madden
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