How to rsync to an external HDD with TCP/IP ?

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Sat Jun 14 14:01:08 UTC 2008


On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 8:42 AM, SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux
<i-ubux at synass.net> wrote:
> It has a 200GB HDD and is FAT32 formatted and provides access with FTP
> and Samba.
>
> How do we rsync the backups to the existing Backup folder from my / our
> notebook/s to this TCP/IP connected unit ?

mount the folders and rsync to the mount point.

I'm not certain of all the implications of backing up ext3 to fat32
over samba - it could be some metadata is lost - I'd want to research
that first.

Brian




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