Fletch;201459 Wrote: > This should work, but I think you need -p if you want to preserve > timestamps, permissions and ownership. Did you do this as root, or > some other user?
As root. From what I can see, it did copy the files over but not the timestamps. My rsync job seems to be overwriting all the files with the proper timestamps, which is what I want. > Not sure what that means. What file browser is this? Could be > ownership or permission related. The standard GNOME GUI used with Ubuntu Linux 7.04. What alarmed me is I don't know which files it couldn't read. > Again, you might want to try -a which will preserve timestamps, > ownership, etc. In any case, there's not much damage you can do unless > you accidentally mix up [source] and [dest] Whew. No possibility of that, the backup drive is still NTFS so I can't write to it even if I wanted to - I'd have to install ntfs-3g. I think things are proceeding along well - the timestamps are being modified to the original ones. I'm still nervous that one file out of the ~4000 will be corrupted or misnamed, because once I get this sorted out, the next step will be to nuke the backup and recreate it from these files using rsync going the other direction. I know I could just install ntfs-3g but I'd rather not. I couldn't get it working for this drive and I've given up on it. ext3 is more robust, and it makes no sense to have an NTFS backup drive since I went 100% Linux now, so I'm not sure Linux can properly handle and ensure file integrity of an NTFS drive over the long term. -- Mark Lanctot 'Sean Adams' Response-O-Matic checklist, patent pending!' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=200910&postcount=2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35211 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
