On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:12:40PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I'm looking for what rsync options I can use to copy existing files > on an ext3 file system to an external eSATA drive formatted with vfat. > I think I want to match only the name, creation date & file size. The > eSATA drive needs to be vfat due to limitations of the audio/video > device it will be plugged into. > > Thanks in advance for any ideas. > > Cheers, > Mark >
FWIW, I routinely backup important directories with rsync from ext3 and ext4 file systems to vfat, with no additional options. The command I use is: sudo rsync -vvvruxi --size-only --exclude-from=/home/rh/rsync-home-excl-list /home/rh/ /mnt/Datastor/Gentoo/ for the home directory. HTH. Terry
