Hi, I am a new user and tried at least some of the recommended ways to find an answer to my question (search the net, ask IT professionals). But when everything fails nothing beats newsgroups...
Here is my problem. I compiled rsync 2.6.2 on a Tru64 v5.1b system. I am trying to use rsync to backup data to a NFS mounted disk outside our immediate local network. Needless to say that rsync works fine for all local disks whether nfs mounted or local to the cpu. However when I try to use rsync to copy files on the remote system (yet NFS mounted so I don't have to use remote login ) rsync -rav Adir c rsync copies the directory tree under Adir just fine but not a single regular (text, binary) file. mkstemp "/usr/rsync/c/TestA/.TestA.1.hTdMYs" failed: Operation not supported on socket rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(633) In Adir is a directory TestA and below a text file called TestA.1 I don't understand why the name was mangled to .TestA.1.hTdMYs which is different every time i call rsync except the part .TestA.1. Obviously, this file is not copied. My understanding from reading messages on the web, is that mkstemp tries to set the time stamp and/or permissions but fails for certain systems like FAT32 but the general consensus was "no big deal". I would also not care too much about that but here it does not even copy the file at all. What is the difference between a regular file and a directory in this context ? Again the complete tree of dirs is copied but not a single file else. BTW I tried the same thing on IRIX 6.5.23 with the latest rsync that SGI provides and got the same problem. Can anyone point me to a solution ? (Sorry for the length...) Thanks, Lothar Dr. Lothar Esser NIH / NCI Tel. 301-435-6316 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
