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Subject:    Re: [kde-linux] Folders with all capital letters not copied
From:       Bruce Miller <subscribe () brmiller ! ca>
Date:       2008-11-03 1:41:45
Message-ID: 941812.77976.qm () web88306 ! mail ! re4 ! yahoo ! com
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----- Original Message ----
From: Nathan <nathan@paysonlinux.org>
To: For people using KDE on Linux with related questions/problems <kde-linux@kde.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 2, 2008 6:27:54 PM
Subject: Re: [kde-linux] Folders with all capital letters not copied

> 
> #!/bin/bash -u
> # back-up home directory to a specific pendrive identified in /etc/fstab by its \
> UUID 
> cd
> mount /media/pendrive
> rsync -Cvrtz --modify-window=1 /home/bruce/Documents /media/pendrive/
> rsync -Cvrtz --modify-window=1 /home/bruce/configs /media/pendrive/
> rsync -Cvrtz --modify-window=1 --exclude=**jar --exclude=blogbridge** \
> --exclude=OmegaT** --exclude=bitext2tmx-1.0M0-080229** /home/bruce/bin \
> /media/pendrive/ rsync -Cvrtz --modify-window=1 /media/pendrive/Documents  \
> /home/bruce/ 
> cd ~/Documents
> find . -perm -0750 -and -not -type d -exec chmod 0644 {} \;
> umount /media/pendrive



What if instead of copying everything, you just create a tar file then move the tar \
file to the pendrive? When you extract the files you can preserve the attributes... \
Since you are using a script it should be painless.

___________________
Reply:

Thanks for the ideas. A couple of issues, however:
1. rsync was designed by the Samba team from the ground up to be a very fast, highly \
efficient incremental copy tool. 2.
it is the vfat aka FAT32 filesystem, designed by Microsoft, which
pollutes the attributes, not the copying process. The use of tar would not solve \
anything. Since I attend a militantly Microsoft-centric institution :-( and am in a \
field where the best-of-breed software that I have so far discovered is written for
Windows :-(, I need to use a filesystem on my pendrive which Microsoft
OSs can read. Pendrives typically are sold formatted in FAT32.


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arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: \
Nathan &lt;nathan@paysonlinux.org&gt;<br>To: For people using KDE on Linux with \
related questions/problems &lt;kde-linux@kde.org&gt;<br>Sent: Sunday, November 2, \
2008 6:27:54 PM<br>Subject: Re: [kde-linux] Folders with all capital letters not \
copied<br><br>&gt; <br>&gt; #!/bin/bash -u<br>&gt; # back-up home directory to a \
specific pendrive identified in /etc/fstab by its UUID<br>&gt; <br>&gt; cd<br>&gt; \
mount /media/pendrive<br>&gt; rsync -Cvrtz --modify-window=1 /home/bruce/Documents \
/media/pendrive/<br>&gt; rsync -Cvrtz --modify-window=1 /home/bruce/configs \
                /media/pendrive/<br>&gt; rsync -Cvrtz --modify-window=1 \
                --exclude=**jar
 --exclude=blogbridge** --exclude=OmegaT** --exclude=bitext2tmx-1.0M0-080229** \
/home/bruce/bin /media/pendrive/<br>&gt; rsync -Cvrtz --modify-window=1 \
/media/pendrive/Documents&nbsp; /home/bruce/<br>&gt; <br>&gt; cd ~/Documents<br>&gt; \
find . -perm -0750 -and -not -type d -exec chmod 0644 {} \;<br>&gt; umount \
/media/pendrive<br><br><br><br>What if instead of copying everything, you just create \
a tar file then move the tar file to the pendrive? When you extract the files you can \
preserve the attributes... Since you are using a script it should be \
painless.<br><br>___________________<br>Reply:<br><br>Thanks for the ideas. A couple \
of issues, however:<br>1. rsync was designed by the Samba team from the ground up to \
be a very fast, highly efficient incremental copy tool.<br>2. it is the vfat aka \
FAT32 filesystem, designed by Microsoft, which pollutes the attributes, not the \
copying process. The use of tar would not solve anything. Since I attend a militantly \
Microsoft-centric institution :-( and am in a field where the best-of-breed software \
that I have so far discovered is written for Windows :-(, I need to use a filesystem \
on my pendrive which Microsoft OSs can read. Pendrives typically are sold formatted \
in FAT32.<br><br></div></div></div></body></html>



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