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I am trying to rsync my Evolution folder to an external disk, which is a NTFS — Mounted at /run/media/myself/TOSHIBA EXT. I am on a Fedora 32 machine.

When I run

sudo rsync -r  -t  -v --progress  -u -s /home/myself/.local/share/evolution/ \
/run/media/myself/'TOSHIBA EXT'/backUpDesktopDic2021/local/share/evolution

I get errors like (mainmail being a Evolution folder)

rsync: [receiver] mkstemp "/run/media/myself/TOSHIBA EXT/backUpDesktopDic2021/local/share/evolution/mail/local/..AAAA_5FInbox_5Fmainmail.inbox_5Fmainmail_5F2015/cur/.1420204086.18521_3492.localhost.localdomain:2,S.cQifAt" failed: Invalid argument (22)

If I try with options --temp-dir=/tmp --no-owner --no-group, I get errors like

rsync: [receiver] open "/run/media/myself/TOSHIBA EXT/backUpDesktopDic2021/local/share/evolution/mail/local/..AAAA_5FInbox_5Fmainmail.myfriend/cur/1539545866.7691_15362.fedora-pc:2,": Invalid argument (22)
rsync: [receiver] copy "/tmp/1539545866.7691_15362.fedora-pc:2,.GY2eMO" -> "mail/local/..AAAA_5FInbox_5Fmainmail.myfriend/cur/1539545866.7691_15362.fedora-pc:2,": Invalid argument (22)

How do I fix this?

Marcus Müller
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mario
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    Possibly related: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/114461/make-linux-forbid-colons-in-file-names-on-ntfs-partitions and this more general search: https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=colon+ntfs – Kusalananda Dec 27 '21 at 20:28
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    @roaima Yes, it could be an issue with characters that are not allowed on the target disk. Since I do not want to encode them, I am looking at the option to tarball my source folder. – mario Dec 28 '21 at 11:15
  • comment by @roaima has been erased? – mario Dec 28 '21 at 14:54
  • Comments can be erased at any time. Mine will have been deleted automatically when you accepted that you're question was a duplicate of the one I suggested. Regards. – Chris Davies Dec 28 '21 at 16:10
  • I see, thanks, take care – mario Dec 28 '21 at 16:11

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