Hi everybody,
i've been using rsync for quite some time to sync files between my
laptop and my desktop
for example i use the following to backup the music library (from Mac
to Linux)
rsync -rvzu --exclude=.DS_Store --delete --exclude 'Podcasts/*'
$LOCAL_MUSI $REMOTE_MUSIC >> $LOGFILE
An od
Sorry for replying to myself, but i think this is quite a problem...
I mean, rsync seems to be arbitrarily changing filenames
Is this the wrong place for such a question? Should i fill in a bug
report?
Marco
On 5 Apr, 2008, at 13:30 , Marco Bridge wrote:
Hi everybody,
i've been using rsync f
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 10:16:05AM +0200, Marco Bridge wrote:
> I mean, rsync seems to be arbitrarily changing filenames
No, rsync doesn't change filesnames at all. You should be looking for
external reasons for the inconsistencies, such as inconsistent case in
the source filename arguments (when
Thanks for your answer, i just learned case-preserving and case-
sensitive
are two different things...
The source partition on my mac is case sensitive
the problem is probably the target FAT partition on linux.
Now that i think of it, my other backup that goes to an ext3 partition
on
the same
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 18:10 +0200, Marco Bridge wrote:
> The source partition on my mac is case sensitive
> the problem is probably the target FAT partition on linux.
I would suggest tinkering with the "shortname" mount option of the FAT
partition and using the --ignore-case rsync option added by
On 9 Apr, 2008, at 03:20 , Matt McCutchen wrote:
I would suggest tinkering with the "shortname" mount option of the FAT
partition and using the --ignore-case rsync option added by this
patch:
http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/patches/ignore-case.diff
I tried to patch but that alone does not s
