Re: My Rsync script is broken! Pls Help.

2008-12-01 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 13:54 -0800, likuidsilence wrote: > Here is my rsync command: > > sudo rsync -rltODv --delete /home/user/NTFS/Win-Ubuntu > /home/user/BackupDrive --modify-window=2 > /home/user/rsync.last.log > > > and here is the output for "ls -la /home/user": > > [...] > drwxr-xr-x 2 u

Re: rsync / checksum small block / xfer small block

2008-12-01 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 21:51 -0500, alexus wrote: > is there a way to somehow force rsync to check checksum in blocks vs > the whole file and xfer only part that has changed vs the whole file? > for instance i have a few gig file, and it usually keeps adding at the > end, maybe a line a day, yet rsy

rsync / checksum small block / xfer small block

2008-12-01 Thread alexus
is there a way to somehow force rsync to check checksum in blocks vs the whole file and xfer only part that has changed vs the whole file? for instance i have a few gig file, and it usually keeps adding at the end, maybe a line a day, yet rsync xfer the whole file over and it takes forever... --

Re: character set for Windows?

2008-12-01 Thread Michal Soltys
Steve Lefevre wrote: I'm using cygwin to backup files from a windows machine to a unix host with rsync. I originally uploaded the bulk of the files using a windows ftp client, and then planned on doing updates nightly with rsync. This can also be important, especially regarding how the ftp serv

Re: Backing up from fat32 to ext3

2008-12-01 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 19:26 +0100, Thomas Ebert wrote: > thanks for your replies. -c seems to take a veeery long time to generate > the file list. > > Currently I'm using > > -vrt --modify-window=7 > > and it's still not working. > > Am I missing anything? What options do you reccomend? Pass

Re: Backing up from fat32 to ext3

2008-12-01 Thread Thomas Ebert
Hi, thanks for your replies. -c seems to take a veeery long time to generate the file list. Currently I'm using -vrt --modify-window=7 and it's still not working. Am I missing anything? What options do you reccomend? Thomas Tony Abernethy schrieb: Thomas Ebert wrote: Hi, I have a

Re: character set for Windows?

2008-12-01 Thread MW
Hi Steve - I posted a similar question a few days ago as I was getting warnings like: 28/11/2008 15:47:16 mdworker[1065] (Warning) Import: Bad path:/Volumes/ backup_hd/Backups/-4.local/Profiles//daily.0/Start Menu/current/$my/Sudtirol/S�dtirol.xls In this path the file name

character set for Windows?

2008-12-01 Thread Steve Lefevre
I'm using cygwin to backup files from a windows machine to a unix host with rsync. I originally uploaded the bulk of the files using a windows ftp client, and then planned on doing updates nightly with rsync. Some of the filenames have strange characters in them, such as the trademark symbol, and