[PLUG] Network storage
Bill Barry
barryb at proaxis.com
Wed Jan 17 02:38:51 UTC 2007
On 1/16/07, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> So that means that I can rsync the files to the USB disk hanging on the
> Windows 2000 desktop, but it will never be a real mirror of my Ubuntu
> laptop because links, ownerships and such cannot be transferred with
> the files.
>
> So to get a real mirror the filesystem on the USB drive would have to
> be ext3 or something Linuxy, right? Of course, Windows wouldn't see it.
> So maybe I'd better revisit Bill's suggestion above. Except I'd really
> rather not mess with the Windows desktop.
Two suggestions come to mind.
1) Boot the Windows desktop with a knoppix CD, format the USB drive with
ext3 or
reiserfs or your favorite linux filesystem and rsync via Knoppix.
2) Format the USB drive with ext2 and use the Windows ext2
driver http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd
discussed in this months Linux Journal. That might fix your rsync errors
but I
have never used such a beast so I can't say for sure.
Bill Barry
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