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January 29, 2013 10:16
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backup/restore files to [a USB dongle] FAT32 drive on OSX/HFS using rsync. Updates and deletes changed files recursively starting in some root directory "dir". Note that the terminal slashes present in the paths are required for rsync to work correctly.
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| # backup from HFS drive to FAT32 (NB: file owner and extended metadata are not synced): | |
| time rsync --recursive --update --delete --links --hard-links --safe-links --perms --times --modify-window=1 --stats --exclude '.DS_Store' --exclude '._*' ~/dir/ /Volumes/FAT32 | |
| # restore from FAT32 to HFS (NB: "--delete" removes files in "dir" not in "FAT32"): | |
| time rsync --recursive --update --delete --links --hard-links --safe-links --perms --times --modify-window=1 --stats --exclude '.DS_Store' --exclude '.Spotlight-V100' --exclude '.fseventsd' --exclude '.Trashes' /Volumes/FAT32/ ~/dir |
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Much appreciated. Syncing from a FAT32 thumb drive to an HFS volume is exactly what I want to do.