On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Todd Cary <todd at aristesoftware.com> wrote: > Les - > > A lot of the data needs to be moved in time to servers in other > organizations (e.g. Rotary) or the data may be used as a > repository for someone with just a notebook computer who would > plug the HD into the computer. This is not my main data backup; > I use rsync for that. > http://www.toddcary.com/rotary/ is one example of data that needs > to be shared. > > Can rsync take ext4 data and copy it to a fat32 drive? Yes, but you have to give up permissions and the modify time on a FAT32 is only accurate to 2 seconds. To rsync from an ext3/4 directory to a plugged-in USB drive use something like: rsync -av --no-p --modify-window=1 <srcdir>/ /media/<volname>/<targetdir>/ and you might need --delete. More info at man rsync. Another possibility: always use tar, and put something like a Windows version of 7zip executable on the USB drive as well as the data. That way, Windows users can get the files out the tar archive. -- Dale Dellutri