On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 01:13:04AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 21 January 2016 00:33:45 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? > > Permissions of 0700 means that only the owner:group of that file can do > anything with it, nobody else can read it, or exec it.
True. The owner and group of the file is myself. Keep trying. Thanks.
