NTFS to NTFS backup

[Simao M]

Hi,

I am running rsync version 2.6.9 under Ubuntu 8.04.

I am trying to backup a NTFS partition to another hard drive formated
as NTFS, using the --delete option, since I want a differential
backup.

The problem is that rsync first deletes all files on the backup disk
and then copies everthing again.

I am using the following command and it still doesnt work, and also
tried without the --size-only and --modify-window=1 option.s

rsync --stats --modify-window=1 --size-only --dry-run -aruvv
--progress --delete /media/sda1/Documents\ and\ Settings/simao/
/media/sda1/work/ /media/truecrypt6/backup/

Thank you,
Simao

[Matt McCutchen]

Post by Simao M
I am running rsync version 2.6.9 under Ubuntu 8.04.
I am trying to backup a NTFS partition to another hard drive formated
as NTFS, using the --delete option, since I want a differential
backup.
The problem is that rsync first deletes all files on the backup disk
and then copies everthing again.
I am using the following command and it still doesnt work, and also
tried without the --size-only and --modify-window=1 option.s
rsync --stats --modify-window=1 --size-only --dry-run -aruvv
--progress --delete /media/sda1/Documents\ and\ Settings/simao/
/media/sda1/work/ /media/truecrypt6/backup/

This might be an NTFS-related case or character set problem. Please
pass -i and send a representative portion of the output so we can see
what is going on.

Matt

[Matt McCutchen]

*deleting work/software/prc/dcpcrypt2/Hashes/DCPtiger.pas

f+++++++++ software/prc/dcpcrypt2/Hashes/DCPtiger.pas

rsync --stats --modify-window=1 --size-only --dry-run -aruvv
--progress --delete /media/sda1/Documents\ and\ Settings/simao/
/media/sda1/work/ /media/truecrypt6/backup/

Ah. Your source argument /media/sda1/work/ with a trailing slash, which
puts that directory at the root of the rsync file list, does not match
the existing data in the work/ subdirectory of the destination.

How you should fix this depends on where you want the source files to
go. Let's take the source file

/media/sda1/work/software/prc/dcpcrypt2/Hashes/DCPtiger.pas

as an example. If you want it to go to

/media/truecrypt6/backup/work/software/prc/dcpcrypt2/Hashes/DCPtiger.pas ,

then either change the source argument to /media/sda1/work (without the
trailing slash) or change the destination to
/media/truecrypt6/backup/work/ . On the other hand, if you want the
file to go to

/media/truecrypt6/backup/software/prc/dcpcrypt2/Hashes/DCPtiger.pas ,

then leave the rsync command as is but run a manual
"mv /media/truecrypt6/backup/work/* /media/truecrypt6/backup/" to avoid
recopying all the files.

Matt