On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 04:14:58AM -0500, ken wrote: > On 01/21/2016 12:33 AM, Bob Holtzman wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 04:59:05PM -0500, ken wrote: > >>On 01/20/2016 04:33 PM, Bob Holtzman wrote: > >>>>2) Target partition was mounted BUT had quietly been auto-renamed by > >>>>>my system k/t that another partition was already bearing the same > >>>>>label name. Fodder for another eventual thread and why I love and > >>>>>advocate UUIDs over labels or other. > >>>1) Target was external HD and was mounted. > >> > >>The simple matter of permissions is often the problem. This kind of problem > >>has cropped up for me before over an upgrade (not yet with Debian though). > >> > >>Also, what exactly is the error message? Can you increase its verbosity > >>so's to examine that as well? > >> > >In case you deleted my original post, the error message is: > > > > rsync: mkdir "/media/cf0a98ed-3c11-4107-b61e-f5139d024396/Jessie-laptop" > > failed: No such file or directory (2) > > rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(674) [Receiver=3.1.1] > > > >I already had verbosity turned on except I believe that refers to the list > >of files as they're > >backed up. Not sure how to expand an error message, or even if that's > >possible. > > > >Permissions are 700 for the executable file. > > > >I'm snowed. Any other ideas? > > > > Can you do at the cli > > 'mkdir "/media/cf0a98ed-3c11-4107-b61e-f5139d024396/Jessie-laptop"' > > as the same user as runs rsync?
As I said in an earlier post in this thread, I had created the Jessie-laptop directory previously.
