Re: [gentoo-user] rsync to a USB stick

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 29 May 2010 11:39:19 Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 29 May 2010 10:30:54 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Saturday 29 May 2010 11:01:39 Mick wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > > 
> > > I run:
> > >  rsync -a -l --delete -v /mnt/Business_dir /media/sdf1
> > > 
> > > to back up a directory from a PC to a USB stick.  However, from a
> > > cursory look this *seems* to copy the complete directory (every time I
> > > run it) and overwrites the USB stick.  Carrying on like this it will
> > > life-expire the USB stick in no time, plus it takes ages to complete
> > > as it copies over every single file again and again.
> > > 
> > > Is there a cleverer option I can add to rsync so that it only copies
> > > new files, overwrites older versions of the same and only deletes any
> > > files or directories that have been deleted from the source directory?
> > 
> > Arg, typo in previous post. I meant what filesystem is on the USB stick?
> 
> FAT32
> 
> Disk /dev/sdb: 8019 MB, 8019509248 bytes
> 20 heads, 16 sectors/track, 48947 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 320 * 512 = 163840 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0xc3072e18
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1   *           1       48948     7831512    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)

Can you reformat to the same filesystem as the source disk and see if that 
makes a difference?


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