On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 19:08 +0100, antonio montagnani wrote: > 2006/11/6, James Wilkinson <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > antonio montagnani wrote: > > > If I copy from my internal HD to my external USB HD a large number of > > > files (i.e. my photo archive, let me say 2000 files) not all files are > > > transferred. > > > Of course the backup is not reliable.....and I have to transfer by > > > sets of 40 files . have you considered using rsync across nfs? erich