On 10-05-16 03:01 PM, Andre Majorel wrote: > On 2010-05-16 16:02 +0100, Frank Smith wrote: > >> HI it's fat32 according to G parted! >> I remember this was for a windoze laptop I had years ago, >> could this be the problem? > > You bet. FAT is not nearly as liberal as Unix when it comes to > file names. > > As Ralf said, you can work around that by using an archiver like > tar or cpio. > One thing to keep an eye out for is that a large .tar file will cause you issues. FAT32 supports 4GiB file sizes IIRC, though in practice the Windows Explorer seems to die at 2Gib.
If you are backing up to a FAT32 drive, try to split the archive in to something less than 2 GiB. > Or reformat the partition as ext3 or some such. Then you'll be > able to do incremental backups with rsync. > This is in fact how I/we do it (cygwin + rsync to sync with a linux machine, then rdiff-backup from that machine to a long term storage array).
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