March 11, 201115 yr This is probably a more general linux question than unRAID but as I'm not sure I thought I'd post here... I just finished building and setting up my first unRAID server this week. I am now trying to copy data from my linux box (ubuntu 11) over to the unRAID box. I figured that the easiest way to do it would be to rsync directories. I have successfully mounted the linux share on the unRAID box and for the most part rsync is working fine but I have two problems: First, on some directories a du command reports slightly different disk usage between some directories. For example, on my linux box du reports my movies directory at 381775860. The same directory, mounted using smbfs, on unRAID reports 381775636. After running rsync to copy everything to the unRAID box du is reporting 381774006 for the new directory. Should these numbers not all be the same? Or is this a result of different filesystems (rieserfs on unRAID and ext3 on linux)?. This is happening on directories after a clean "rsync -av" -- so none of the problems listed in the second point. Second, rsync was reporting some missing files: root@Tower:/mnt/remote/Video# rsync -av /mnt/remote/Video/Katie/ /mnt/user/Media/Video/Katie/ sending incremental file list file has vanished: "/mnt/remote/Video/Katie/Shows/Backyardigans, The [2004]/03x14_Caveman?s Best Friend.mpg" When I try to do a ls -la on the directory it alternates between the following: -rwxrw-rw- 1 65534 65534 994586650 Feb 16 01:22 03x14_Caveman?s\ Best\ Friend.mpg* -??? ? ? ? ? ? 03x14_caveman?s\ best\ friend.nfo -??? ? ? ? ? ? 03x14_caveman?s\ best\ friend.tbn -??? ? ? ? ? ? 03x14_Caveman?s\ Best\ Friend.mpg -rwxrw-rw- 1 65534 65534 1666 Feb 11 00:35 03x14_caveman?s\ best\ friend.nfo* -rwxrw-rw- 1 65534 65534 2764854 Feb 11 00:35 03x14_caveman?s\ best\ friend.tbn* The files all show up fine on my Windows 7 box and on the linux box. I have in fact copied the missing files manually to the unRAID share via Windows Explorer. But I would really like to be able to trust rsync to do it all properly. All of the files that go missing have an apostrophe in them somewhere bur not all files with apostrophes cause problems - but permissions and ownership is the same for all files. My big concern is that I'm not doing something right and that I may miss copying some data over. Any ideas?
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