Problems with rsync between NAS mounted filesystems

2010-01-13 Thread Ed Coates
Hi All, Here is my setup. I've to two NAS filesystems mounted on a SunFire V490. They're mounted on /rsync/ieeprodhome/ECF and /rsync/ieeprodhome2/ECF. The ieeprodhome filesystem is 1.008 TB wiht 812GB used and the ieeprodhome2 filesystem is 1.2TB with 813GB used. One other thing to a

Re: cannot backup to external disk with rsync, create hard links of add w permissions

2010-01-13 Thread David Fogle
Gparted should be perfectly fine. As for the FS type, EXT3/4 should be fine for an external drive, although everyone has their favorite. On 01/13/2010 09:44 AM, Thomas Evangelidis wrote: 2010/1/13 Paul Slootman mailto:paul%2brs...@wurtel.net>> On Wed 13 Jan 2010, Thomas Evangelidis wrote

Re: cannot backup to external disk with rsync, create hard links of add w permissions

2010-01-13 Thread Thomas Evangelidis
2010/1/13 Paul Slootman > > On Wed 13 Jan 2010, Thomas Evangelidis wrote: > > > I want to backup my Documents directory and instead of copying everything > to > > my external disk I tried to use this command line to create an > incremental > > backup with rsync on my external disk: > > You _did_ f

Re: cannot backup to external disk with rsync, create hard links of add w permissions

2010-01-13 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 13 Jan 2010, Thomas Evangelidis wrote: > I want to backup my Documents directory and instead of copying everything to > my external disk I tried to use this command line to create an incremental > backup with rsync on my external disk: You _did_ format the external disk with a filesystem t

cannot backup to external disk with rsync, create hard links of add w permissions

2010-01-13 Thread Thomas Evangelidis
Dear rsync users, I want to backup my Documents directory and instead of copying everything to my external disk I tried to use this command line to create an incremental backup with rsync on my external disk: $cd /media/My\ Passport $rsync -a --delete --link-dest=../BackUp08.2009_Ubuntu/ /home/th