Thank you for all your answers. Indeed, after I reformatted my USB hard-drive in ext3, it worked smoothly.
2011/1/30 Wayne Davison <way...@samba.org> > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Walrus Foolhill < > walrus.foolh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Both hard-drives don't seem to have the same filesystem type (ext3 versus >> vfat): can it be due to this? > > > Yes. Different filessystems have different rules for what characters they > allow. An "Invalid argument" comes from outside of rsync, and means you > need to figure out what the OS/filesystem doesn't like about the name. You > can always try creating a file manually, for instance. However, I'm fairly > sure that a double quote is not allowed by FAT filesystems. > > ..wayne.. >
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