>>> I suppose you want to use NTFS for backup in order to at the same time >>> produce >>> MSWin compatible files. If not, just reformat your USB into EXT3 or 4. (and >>> my >>> further comments are superfluos)
>> Do you need to use NTFS for the external drive? I suggest you try again using >> a Linux format such as ext3 and see if you have more success. >> My impression is that a high proportion of problems with rdiff-backup relate >> to backups to NTFS volumes (backup *from* NTFS generally works fine). > BTW, I see open source utility Ext2Read > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read/ > allows a Windows machine to read and copy from Ext2/3/4 (including using LVM2) > filesystems. Since the backups are being made in Linux I will consider using Ext2 or FAT32 as destiny, but sharing files with Windows is an important issue. >>> Since there seems to be less experience using rdiff-backup on MSWin and >>> since >>> FAT32 is a less complex and hopefully more secure filesystem than NTFS for >>> Linux use I chose to backup to a FAT32 disk in order to simultaneously get >>> MSWin-compatible files. >>> >>> I do employ some precautions regarding file naming and some special care at >>> rdiff-backup use. I have earlier posted questions touching these problems >>> that >>> may be similar to yours (on FAT32, though) but may be avoided, so far, by >>> using >>> >>> rdiff-backup --no-hard-links \ >>> --override-chars-to-quote '"*/:<>?\\|;' \ >>> $source $fat32usb Thank you for your feedback. Best regards, Bruno Basilio _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
