rsync won't copy from hfs to FAT32?

[gangalee]

# ps -l 4272
F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD
0 D 0 4272 4237 0 80 0 - 3020 - pts/1 2:00 rsync -avcuP /mnt/...

# ps -l 4273
F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD
1 S 0 4273 4272 0 80 0 - 1733 - pts/1 0:00 rsync -avcuP /mnt/...

the rsync command says it's just building a filelist to send, and nothing is showing on the target drive

meanwhile, dmesg & messages are complaining-
Dec 12 16:22:22 fatdog64-1cd kern.info kernel: sd 9:0:0:0: [sde]
Dec 12 16:22:22 fatdog64-1cd kern.err kernel: Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
Dec 12 16:22:22 fatdog64-1cd kern.info kernel: sd 9:0:0:0: [sde]
Dec 12 16:22:22 fatdog64-1cd kern.err kernel: Sense Key : Medium Error [current]
Dec 12 16:22:22 fatdog64-1cd kern.info kernel: sd 9:0:0:0: [sde]
Dec 12 16:22:22 fatdog64-1cd kern.err kernel: Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error
Dec 12 16:22:22 fatdog64-1cd kern.info kernel: sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] CDB:
Dec 12 16:22:22 fatdog64-1cd kern.err kernel: Read(10): 28 00 12 0d 56 10 00 00 08 00
Dec 12 16:22:22 fatdog64-1cd kern.err kernel: end_request: critical medium error, dev sde, sector 302863888
Dec 12 16:22:22 fatdog64-1cd kern.err kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sde1, logical block 37857730
[106154.562733] sd 9:0:0:0: [sde]
[106154.562734] Sense Key : Medium Error [current]
[106154.562737] sd 9:0:0:0: [sde]
[106154.562739] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error
[106154.562741] sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] CDB:
[106154.562742] Read(10): 28 00 12 0d 5c 10 00 00 08 00
[106154.562750] end_request: critical medium error, dev sde, sector 302865424
[106154.562753] Buffer I/O error on device sde1, logical block 37857922
[106159.852244] sd 9:0:0:0: [sde]
[106159.852248] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[106159.852250] sd 9:0:0:0: [sde]
[106159.852252] Sense Key : Medium Error [current]
[106159.852256] sd 9:0:0:0: [sde]
[106159.852258] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error
[106159.852260] sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] CDB:
[106159.852261] Read(10): 28 00 12 0d 5e 10 00 00 08 00
[106159.852270] end_request: critical medium error, dev sde, sector 302865936
[106159.852274] Buffer I/O error on device sde1, logical block 37857986

Should I worry? Is there anything I can do to speed this up? It's been about 24 hrs to copy 80GB from one USB HFS partition to another USB fat32 on a Fatdogged Inspiron with 3GB of RAM and a 4GB savefile.

[Ted Dog]

sounds like USB is dead or in bad shape. Is that why you are moving files? HFS is read only with Fatdog64 if that would make a difference.

[Ted Dog]

Also I am having USB file truncation issues in FD 7 beta. If you are using that as well try 631 and a waitdev=5 on boot line.

[Ted Dog]

And no That is what I had to due to backup my Moms Mac. Took about an hour and a half. You also may wish to backup to a NTFS or linux formated HD. fat drops a lot of stuff so you can't copy back.

[Flash]

Gangalee, don57's Copy Fast .pet. uses rsync. I've used Copy Fast to copy many things. It will copy single files or entire directories. See this post for a possible explanation of why the files didn't copy for you.

[don570]

When using rsync I've found strange slowdowns when backing up a
USB stick(fat32) to a hard drive. This is useful since USB sticks do have a
habit of going bad

I find it does work. It may take hours to back for the first time,
so I do it overnite. Then the incremental backing up goes quickly.

There are various settings for rsync regarding creation times of file
so maybe an option like

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rsync --modify-window=1

might help. If I have time I will test.

http://linux.die.net/man/1/rsync

[gangalee]

I'm in the middle of another attempt now, but I'll try the suggestions afterwards on other directories.

I didn't have my post settings set to notify replies, so thanks everyone.