Author: Alan Pope Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Rsync error message
2008/11/30 Tim <xendistar@???>: > I running rsync to backup my home folder and I get lots of lines like this
>
> 2008/11/30 15:48:07 [23060] rsync:
> mkstemp "/mnt/sdb1/homebackups/Mail/FreeUK/cur/.1199915670.24533.E0o4F:2,S.krvGCP"
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
>
> I have checked and .1199915670.24533.E0o4F:2,S.krvGCP is valid e-mail message
> which I can open and can be read from the above link as a text file
>
> The rsync command I am running is
>
> rsync -av --exclude=/home/mit/download/ --delete --ignore-errors --log-file=/mnt/sdb1/homebackups/rsync_log /home/mit/ /mnt/sdb1/homebackups/
>
> /mnt/sdb1 is a external usb drive
> Can anybody shine some light on this please
Is the external device formatted using FAT which doesn't like the
filename because it has a colon in it?
