On Tuesday 16 November 2010 14:15:00 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 15:28 on Tuesday 16 November 2010, Mick did > opine thusly: > > On 16 November 2010 09:00, Stefan G. Weichinger <li...@xunil.at> wrote: > > > Am 15.11.2010 23:50, schrieb Mick:
> > > You don't show us what you did ... > > > > I ran the same as before but changed the path to the one you suggested: > > > > =============================== > > 'rsync -a -l -v --exclude "./System Volume Information" > > -e "ssh -c blowfish -l root" /mnt/User_WinXP/ > > 10.10.10.25:/home/httpd/backup' > > > > sending incremental file list > > rsync: opendir "/mnt/User_WinXP/System Volume Information" failed: > > Permission denied (13) > > > > [snip ...] > > > > rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous > > errors) (code 23) at main.c(1042) [sender=3.0.7] > > =============================== > > > > The System Volume is shown as 0700 (mounted with default permissions) > > and is owned by root when viewed from Gentoo. > > Don't think of --exclude as being a file path match, think of it as more a > regex (usually just a literal one). It specifies a pattern that if found if > the full pathname, results in the file not being synced. > > The string "./System Volume Information" of course appears nowhere in the > rsync output list of files. > > I think you want: > > --exclude "/System Volume Information" > > Then rsync will not attempt to open the directory at all Excellent, it worked! :-) Thank you all for your help. -- Regards, Mick
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