Hi
I am a rsync (on Mac OS X, RsyncX version with extended HFS+/-eahfs forks) beginner (I merely use it for backing up my desktop machine to a bootable
external firewire volume, so that I can resume work in case of a harddrive disaster)
and I got these messages:
mknod "/Volumes/backup/Applications/Plone2/Sites/Default/var/zopectlsock" failed: Invalid argument
mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/imap/socket/lmtp" failed: Invalid argument
mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/run/syslog" failed: Invalid argument
mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/bounce" failed: Invalid argument
mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/bsmtp" failed: Invalid argument
mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/cyrus" failed: Invalid argument
mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/defer" failed: Invalid argument
mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/error" failed: Invalid argument
mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/ifmail" failed: Invalid argument
mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/lmtp" failed: Invalid argument
mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/local" failed: Invalid argument
mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/maildrop" failed: Invalid argument
mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/old-cyrus" failed: Invalid argument
mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/proxymap" failed: Invalid argument
mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/relay" failed: Invalid argument
mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/rewrite" failed: Invalid argument
mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/smtp" failed: Invalid argument
mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/uucp" failed: Invalid argument
mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/virtual" failed: Invalid argument
mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/public/cleanup" failed: Invalid argument
mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/public/flush" failed: Invalid argument
mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/public/qmgr" failed: Invalid argument
mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/public/showq" failed: Invalid argument
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(639)
from this little script that I hacked together:
SOURCE=/
TARGET=/Volumes/backup
RSYNC=/usr/local/bin/rsync
DIR=/opt/Common/rsync-scripts
sudo bless -folder $TARGET/System/Library/CoreServices
sudo $RSYNC $* -v --stats -r -R -l -a --delete -p --cvs-exclude --exclude-from=$DIR/exclude-list.rsync --include-from=$DIR/include-list.rsync --files-from=$DIR/master.rsync $SOURCE $TARGET --eahfs -b --update > $TARGET/backup.log
The exclude-list file contains:
# Exclude extra directory on $TARGET for deletion extra/*
# Default excludes backup.log dev/* afs/* private/tmp/* Network/* Volumes/* automount/* private/var/run/*
and the oter two files include-list and master.rsync are similar (master.rsync merely containing /).
Should I be worried? Or better, can somebody tell me how to avoid the above (fatal?) error during rsync
while making exact copy of my Mac OS X volume.
Finally, I like to have a nice icon for my external harddrive. The above script wipes the icon everytime I make
a backup. Is this due to resource forks or just some icon file that I can exclude explicitly?
Thanks, Johan
PS. In case I don't follow the thread on the list, please carbon copy to my personal mailbox. Cheers.
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