rsync backup to external drive
I keep my “documents” and “photos” folders synced to an external hard disk
rsync --modify-window=2 -avz Documents/ /media/LACIE/Documents/
The –modify-window is because the fat32 filesystem on my USB disk has lower precision when it comes to time so rsync thinks all the files have been modified. This flag sets a window of 2 seconds.
April 8th, 2010 at 6:51 pm
Of course, FAT behaves weirdly during British summer time
Need to change the modify window to 3602 (i.e. an hour and 2 seconds)