On Sunday 30 November 2008 16:22:01 Alan Pope wrote:
> 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?
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
Yes Al, it is fat32, maybe it is time to think about moving over to ext3.
Thanks
Tim
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