On 4 August 2010 14:23, ByteSoup <bytes...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/08/10 12:28, Colin Law wrote: > > On 4 August 2010 12:23, Gordon Burgess-Parker<gor...@gbpcomputing.co.uk> > wrote: > > > >> Is it possible to use rsync to a folder on a remote computer? > >> > > Yes > > > > > >> If so what's the syntax? > >> > > u...@server:folder/folder/.. > > > > > Assuming the remote machine is running linux, then you should also be > able to use the -a option (which incorporates a few common used > options). If your remote machine is a windows box, im not sure it will > work. > > Slightly off topic but might be useful to you, I had a external HDD, it > came formatted with the FAT filesystem, however I had murders getting > all files to rsync from my Ubuntu machine, it didnt like preserving > user, groups and soft links etc. I reformatted the drive to ext4 and it > worked a charm. > > -Mark > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
i had similar issues with fat filesystems on target. from : http://sial.org/howto/rsync/ "Normally, the -a option can be used to perfectly mirror the files. However, if the target filesystem does not support permissions, a different set of options should be used to avoid warnings from rsync. To synchronize data to a USB drive with a FAT filesystem, I use the -rlt options. " man rsync -r, --recursive recurse into directories -l, --links copy symlinks as symlinks -t, --times preserve modification times azmodie
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