Re: backup to NTFS USB disk

2012-04-15 Thread Greg Deback (rsync)
Hello all, I don't know if this would really help, but I had some problems with latin characters too while syncing between a Windows NT fileserver (NTFS) and a linux box (ext3), and I have solved it using --iconv option, as follow : rsync -hxPHaz -e 'ssh' --stats --iconv=CP1252 --delete --backup -

Re: backup to NTFS USB disk

2012-04-15 Thread joop g
On Friday 13 April 2012 21:22:42 jose...@main.nc.us wrote: > Since no one has replied yet, I have one idea that *might* point to part > of your problem. I've never had to deal with locale issues, so I have no > idea about that. > > You have directories and file names with blanks in them. In gene

Re: backup to NTFS USB disk

2012-04-13 Thread josephj
Since no one has replied yet, I have one idea that *might* point to part of your problem. I've never had to deal with locale issues, so I have no idea about that. You have directories and file names with blanks in them. In general, this causes a lot of trouble for a lot of programs. I'm not sur

Re: backup to NTFS USB disk

2012-04-12 Thread joop g
On Thursday 12 April 2012 11:20:54 joop g wrote: (I forgot to include my rsync commands) > mount -t ntfs-3g -o locale=nl_NL.iso-8859-1,silent > /dev/disk/by-id/usb-DiskA \ /mnt/tmp || > mount -t ntfs-3g -o locale=nl_NL.iso-9959-1,silent > /dev/disk/by-id/usb-DiskB \ /mnt/tmp || > mount -t ntfs-3g

backup to NTFS USB disk

2012-04-12 Thread joop g
Hello, * I am setting up a backup on a Linux system with Windows XP workstations. The backup goes to three alternating usb drives, each of which is NTFS formatted. The disks should be virtually identical but they do not seem to be. First, my mount command is this (I edited a bit for brevity) m