Reco <recovery...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi. > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 06:41:08AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> I have a mobile phone and a kindle fire, both of which can be manually >> mounted, but they are given names like "mtp://[usb:002,042]/" currently >> the kindle fire. And "mtp://[usb:001,012]/" which is the mobile >> phone. >> >> How can I do a rsync backup of them both, or any backup at all really, >> just in case the martians invade, again! :) > > If it's really mounted (for example, back in the old days nautilus > didn't mount smb shares, although it could access them just fine) - all > you need to do is to run 'mount' and examine existing mountpoints. > Presumably your devices are mounted either somewhere inside your $HOME, > or inside /run/media/$USER. And if you get a mountpoint - it's a simple > matter of running 'rsync -Hax $MOUNTPOINT $YOUR_BACKUP'. >
Neither of them show in "mount", although I know that I can mount either using "jmtpfs /media/galaxy". But doing that gives a very flakey connection, prone to dropping it or i/o errors. Neither of which are conducive for a successful backup! And currently, only the mobile is showing in 'lsusb' even though the kindle is mounted as well! The mtp protocol/file system is very problematic and doesn't appear to be handled well by linux at the moment, but I return to it every few months in the hope that it has progressed! Thanks Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk my git repo = https://bitbucket.org/boudiccas/dots TGmeds = http://www.tgmeds.org.uk Debian testing, fluxbox 1.3.5, emacs 24.3.91.1
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