Linkstations LS-CHL-V2 backup does not work if directory name contains only capital letters ?

[martti_a]

I tried to make backups from my linkstation to attached USB drive. Basically it worked but failed to copy to those directories whose name contained only capital letters:

 

Source:

 

root@vpcf23l1e:/mnt/NAS/Pia# ls
AV                         käsityöt    muuta                videot
blogi                      kästyökori  neuleet              vlcsnap-2011-07-27-09h57m07s44.png
Blurb                      kehruu      ravelry
bookmarks-2012-09-02.json  kirjat      siirretyt tiedostot
karjalakirja               koe         Verena
root@vpcf23l1e:/mnt/NAS/Pia# ls AV
2012_04_15  av115.jpg     DSC03219.JPG  DSC03226.JPG  DSC03233.JPG  DSC03240.JPG  DSC03247.JPG
ari2.jpg    av1.jpg       DSC03220.JPG  DSC03227.JPG  DSC03234.JPG  DSC03241.JPG  DSC03248.JPG
ari.jpg     av22.jpg      DSC03221.JPG  DSC03228.JPG  DSC03235.JPG  DSC03242.JPG  DSC03249.JPG
av111.jpg   DSC03215.JPG  DSC03222.JPG  DSC03229.JPG  DSC03236.JPG  DSC03243.JPG
av112.jpg   DSC03216.JPG  DSC03223.JPG  DSC03230.JPG  DSC03237.JPG  DSC03244.JPG
av113.jpg   DSC03217.JPG  DSC03224.JPG  DSC03231.JPG  DSC03238.JPG  DSC03245.JPG
av114.jpg   DSC03218.JPG  DSC03225.JPG  DSC03232.JPG  DSC03239.JPG  DSC03246.JPG
root@vpcf23l1e:/mnt/NAS/Pia#

 

What was copied:

 

root@vpcf23l1e:/mnt/LACIE/_backups/nwhd/Pia# ls
av                         käsityöt    muuta                videot
blogi                      kästyökori  neuleet              vlcsnap-2011-07-27-09h57m07s44.png
Blurb                      kehruu      ravelry
bookmarks-2012-09-02.json  kirjat      siirretyt tiedostot
karjalakirja               koe         Verena
root@vpcf23l1e:/mnt/LACIE/_backups/nwhd/Pia# ls av
2012_04_15
root@vpcf23l1e:/mnt/LACIE/_backups/nwhd/Pia#

So the directory AV was created to the USB disk but it had name av. In the logfile then coping the files failed:

 

   2749 nwhd/Pia/Blurb/BookSmartData/valokuvia vuosilta 2011 - 2012/library/fef97f8c-9a85-46e5-8649-acd6995dbbcb.zoom
   2750 rsync: mkstemp "/mnt/usbdisk1/_backups/nwhd/Pia/AV/.DSC03215.JPG.ysxA9a" failed: No such file or directory (2)
   2751 rsync: mkstemp "/mnt/usbdisk1/_backups/nwhd/Pia/AV/.DSC03216.JPG.fBppIG" failed: No such file or directory (2)
   2752 rsync: mkstemp "/mnt/usbdisk1/_backups/nwhd/Pia/AV/.DSC03217.JPG.tGEVAR" failed: No such file or directory (2)
   2753 rsync: mkstemp "/mnt/usbdisk1/_backups/nwhd/Pia/AV/.DSC03218.JPG.3cui5x" failed: No such file or directory (2)
   2754 rsync: mkstemp "/mnt/usbdisk1/_backups/nwhd/Pia/AV/.DSC03219.JPG.OO3E9C" failed: No such file or directory (2)
   2755 rsync: mkstemp "/mnt/usbdisk1/_backups/nwhd/Pia/AV/.DSC03220.JPG.7LHKSp" failed: No such file or directory (2)
   2756 rsync: mkstemp "/mnt/usbdisk1/_backups/nwhd/Pia/AV/.DSC03221.JPG.rHbDRE" failed: No such file or directory (2)

Does anyone know the explanation and is there a workaround ?

 

This was the first trial of backup and I used Overwrite backup(Append) mode with "Create a fle folder ..." enabled. Firmware version is 1.37.

 

br, Martti

 

[davo]

First, update.

[martti_a]

Thanks for reply !

 

Haven't done the upgrade yet, sorry for :-) My only explanation is that I am unsure how to be sure it is reliable after the upgrade, it so slow (for a newbie like me) to make the backups and dig out from the logs what failed, if any this time ... BTW, I'd be happy if you could still write down if you know whether upgrade helps/doesn't or if you do not know ?

 

Anyways, I tried to when googling rsync + capital letter I and learned that rsync  (which is open source tool developed mainly to work with unix like systems ??)  might have some issues with capital letters and other such things when dealing with FAT32 filesystem ( like my usb disk ).

 

So if problem is rsync + fat not separating capitals, does anyone have info if I need to use eg. EXT3 filesystem in the usb disk ? Then I can't use the disk with windows anymore, right ? Maybe I need to get another disk just for backups ...

 

br, Martti

[martti_a]

Hi again !

 

I upgraded the sw to latest I found, 1.56. Unfortunately I looks like testing is easier than I expected, new version still cannot differenciate capital vs small letters in filenames.

 

I think my LinkStation has been and still is excellent product, easy to setup and has not required any maintanence for years, biggest problem so far has been you forget how to manage the thing because you dont need to :-)

And also this time the upgrade procedure was very easy and worked well, although it wouldn't have hurted to have some documents available ...

 

But it would be important to document  these backup limitations ( at the moment I believe fat usb disk actually cannot be used as a destination of automated backup because it is quite random what gets copied and what not) should be documented clearly, now people end up into very labouros debugging work or notice that they actually do not have backups.

 

br, Martti

 

 

[martti_a]

Hi !

 

I got a second usbdisk, formatted it ti EXT3 and seems to work, no more issues with capitals.

 

br, Martti