On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:32 PM, <ny6...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
Thanks Terry. I'm through about 30GB of the 400GB I want to back up. It looks like it's working. The --size-only option was what I needed. (Assuming it completes without any other problems.) Cheers, Mark NOTE: To others discussing the various positives and negatives of Windows file systems please note that I had no choice in the matter. The only thing this piece of equipment accepts on it's USB port is VFAT.
