[Wine] rsyncing Wine fails

[Dan Kegel]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:33 PM, David Shaw <dj.shaw at btconnect.com> wrote:
>  it chokes when it gets to the .wine folder - I/O error on every single file
> and folder within .wine - trying a simple
>
>  cp -r /home/david/ /media/Portable/backup/
>
>  has the same effect.  This is repeatable and only .wine is affected - which
> is why I wonder if it could be something about the way Wine is set up.

Not terribly likely...
What filesystem is your backup volume?
Does it allow filenames that start with . ?
i.e. does
   touch /media/Portable/backup/.foobar
succeed?