Re: FC3 backup bug

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On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 18:25 -0600, Lloyd Hayes wrote:
> Bug notice on FC3. I noticed the other day that Fedora Core 3 seemed to
> have a bug. When backing up data to a Fat32 formated removable hard
> drive, not all data gets written recursively. I found some directories
> which had been copied from my FC3 systems with several sub directories
> had the directories empty on the receiving drive, but not on the
> originating drive. 
> 
> Going onto the respective drives in the respective directories and
> copying the necessary files was one answer that worked. But I don't
> understand what was happening. 
> 
> I actually noticed this while trying to restore data to the FC4 system.
> In going back onto a computer with FC3 and recreating the directories on
> the removable hard drive, I was able to see that not all information was
> being written by simply copying the parent directories to the drive.

How were you doing the backup? What command did you use? What were the
name(s) and permissions for some of the directories that didn't get
backed up?

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


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