[kde-linux] Folders with all capital letters not copied

[Bruce Miller]

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. 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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----- Original Message ----
From: Nathan <nathan at paysonlinux.org>
To: For people using KDE on Linux with related questions/problems <kde-linux at 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.
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