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

[Brian Tillman]

On Jun 14, 2008, at 8:27 PM, SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 10:01 -0400, Brian McKee wrote:
>> 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


Look at using duplicity instead. It will allow you to backup directly  
via ftp without having to first mount the volume. It will also backup  
you files into optionally encrypted tarballs which *should* prevent  
any complications backing up to fat32.

Other Brian
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