On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 05:49:30PM +0200, Simon Thelen wrote: > On 17-06-27 at 10:00, Jason wrote: > > I use rsync for doing incremental backups to a USB stick. I am having > > a problem that rsync does not like backing up my mutt emails since > > they contain a colon in the filename. For example: > > > > 1498570870.M370636P2743Q2R5bbb999d0aefc481.net1:2,S > > > > Using fat32 format on the USB stick may be part of the problem but I > > don't want to change to a different format for other reasons. > Fat32 doesn't like : afaik (I'm pretty sure all windows-based file > systems don't since that's the drive/path separater) > > > What is the best way to backup these emails or how do others handle > > this? > Either write a script that backs the files to a temporary directory and > then renames them to remove the colons, use a program besides rsync that > can handle this case (I believe rdiff-backup can) or I believe there are > fuse layers that can handle this transparently (fuse-posixovl etc).
But how can a different program work if the problem lies with the fat32 filesystem? I know drag and drop using pcmanfm file manager does not work either. Maybe I'll end up trying your first suggestion (copying to a temporary directory and renaming). Thanks for your response. Jason > > -- > Simon Thelen
