I am trying to use rsync to create a mirror of my Linux laptop (Ubuntu Dapper amd-64) onto a USB drive hanging on a Windows 2000 desktop over ethernet. The folder I want to rsync to is /laptop and the USB drive is mounted at /media/smb using the following:
sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=jcj //Devil4/Linux_Backups /media/smb Mounting works fine -- the mount command shows the USB drive as mounted. I have been working on the rsync command for over a day. The following is what I am using at this point: sudo rsync -av --delete --exclude=/proc --exclude=/media / /media/smb/laptop This does copy the files to the /laptop folder on the USB drive. That is, Windows Explorer sees the files there, so I know I have copied the files there and not just to the /media/smb mount point. However, I get a lot of error messages like the following (chosen at random): rsync: mknod "/media/smb/laptop/dev/.static/dev/.static/dev/rfcomm74" failed: Operation not permitted (1) rsync: symlink "/media/smb/laptop/dev/.static/dev/.static/dev/sr0" -> "scd0" failed: Operation not permitted (1) When I say "a lot of error messages" I mean more error messages than files actually copied. I selected the above two because all the error messages related to mknod and symlink. I haven't been using Linux very long and I don't understand how to fix this. I have read the man page and I have googled all over, but can't find anything that explains what to do about these error messages. All I can find is that (1) means a syntax error, but that doesn't make any sense if it is a permissions problem. Can anyone help? -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
