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<br><div><div>On Jun 14, 2008, at 8:27 PM, SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 10:01 -0400, Brian McKee wrote:</font></p> <blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 8:42 AM, SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><<a href="mailto:i-ubux@synass.net">i-ubux@synass.net</a>> wrote:</font></p> <blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">It has a 200GB HDD and is FAT32 formatted and provides access with FTP</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">and Samba.</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">How do we rsync the backups to the existing Backup folder from my / our</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">notebook/s to this TCP/IP connected unit ?</font></p> </blockquote><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">mount the folders and rsync to the mount point.</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I'm not certain of all the implications of backing up ext3 to fat32</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">over samba - it could be some metadata is lost - I'd want to research</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">that first.</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Brian</font></p> </blockquote></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Other Brian</div></body><br />--
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