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

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Wed Jun 18 20:46:55 UTC 2008


John DeCarlo wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:38 AM, SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux <i-ubux at synass.net>
> wrote:
>
>   
>> Unfortunately it's too late to try your suggestions since I had / have
>> to erase the whole external HDD because it wants FAT32 to be recognized
>> via TCP/IP !? ;-(
>>
>>     
    I went to man rsync and it states in clear language that it works 
fine on ext2 and ext3. It will not work with other file systems. When 
you know what it does you know why it has this requirement.

Karl

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