Re: Recommendations for backup software?

Porpoise wrote:
> 
> For OpenSource:
> http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Backup/
> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net
> 
> For commercial:
> http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,121969,00.asp

Anybody want to tell me why rsync isn't working for me anymore?  I've
used this

/cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/rsync.exe --delete -r -ave
/cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/ssh.exe  [email protected]:/home/user/
/cygdrive/c/backup/user

for a long time and it works great.  But then I switch the destination
to /cygdrive/e/backup/user instead, it always copies everything every
time.  The only difference is that E: is FAT32 and an external hard
drive and C: is NTFS.

My assumption is that the various permission and size bits are stored
differently so they look like differences.  I've experimented with
different switches, like the --size-only one but even then it recopies
the directories themselves, which if you have a deep directory structure
still takes a long time to synchronize.

I've tried a few other programs but with all of them so far, compared to
rsync which takes about 5 minutes to synchronize 2 gigs of data, the
other ones all take like 30 minutes or more.