On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 01:31:37PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Tue 25 Mar 2008, Chris G wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:41:25PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote:
> > > On Tue 25 Mar 2008, Chris G wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm getting this error message and I don't really understand what
> > > > rsync is trying to tell me:-
> > > >
> > > > rsync: link_stat "/rdiffBackup/gradwell/Mail/." failed: No such
> > > > file or directory (2)
> > > > rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at
> > > > main.c(977) [sender=2.6.9]
> > > >
> > > > Can anyone explain what it's saying please. /rdiffBackup/gradwell/Mail/
> > > > does exist and is readable by the user running rsync.
> > > >
> > > > Oh, this is rsync 3.0.0 and the command line is:-
> > > >
> > > > rsync -r --exclude /In/ --exclude /Li/ --exclude /Tm/
> > > > /rdiffBackup/gradwell/Mail/ /home/chris/MailArchive
> > >
> > > Does /rdiffBackup/gradwell/Mail/ exist below /home/chris/MailArchive/ ?
> > >
> > No:-
>
> Oops, sorry, I don't know what I was thinking...
> (before my 1st mug of coffee, I think :-)
>
>
> > chris$ ls /home/chris/MailArchive/
> > boating friends holidays isbd money selling software
> > vehicles
> > family garden houseHome jobs personal sentmail telecoms work
> > france hardware internet leisure riding shopping trimble
> >
> > chris$ ls /rdiffBackup/gradwell/Mail/
> > In Tm family friends hardware houseHome isbd leisure
> > personal selling software vehicles
> > Li boating france garden holidays internet jobs money riding
> > shopping telecoms work
>
> Could you do an "ls -la /rdiffBackup/gradwell/Mail/" ? and perhaps also
> without the trailing slash.
It's the same with and without the trailing /.
chris$ ls -la /rdiffBackup/gradwell/Mail
total 104
drwxr-xr-x 26 chris chris 4096 2007-12-23 18:56 .
drwxr-xr-x 26 chris chris 4096 2008-03-24 17:46 ..
drwx------ 8 chris chris 4096 2008-02-24 19:15 In
drwx------ 37 chris chris 4096 2008-02-26 12:37 Li
drwx------ 11 chris chris 4096 2008-03-05 12:05 Tm
drwx------ 5 chris chris 4096 2007-12-12 23:16 boating
drwx------ 14 chris chris 4096 2007-12-12 23:22 family
drwx------ 14 chris chris 4096 2008-01-29 13:47 france
drwx------ 47 chris chris 4096 2007-12-12 23:20 friends
drwx------ 8 chris chris 4096 2007-12-12 23:16 garden
drwx------ 13 chris chris 4096 2007-12-14 13:21 hardware
drwx------ 8 chris chris 4096 2007-12-12 23:26 holidays
drwx------ 13 chris chris 4096 2007-12-12 23:18 houseHome
drwx------ 10 chris chris 4096 2007-12-12 23:15 internet
drwx------ 30 chris chris 4096 2008-03-10 09:58 isbd
drwx------ 21 chris chris 4096 2007-12-12 23:13 jobs
drwx------ 3 chris chris 4096 2007-12-12 23:22 leisure
drwx------ 9 chris chris 4096 2007-12-13 09:17 money
drwx------ 6 chris chris 4096 2007-12-12 23:18 personal
drwx------ 28 chris chris 4096 2007-12-12 23:18 riding
drwx------ 7 chris chris 4096 2007-12-12 23:18 selling
drwx------ 20 chris chris 4096 2008-03-24 10:35 shopping
drwx------ 7 chris chris 4096 2007-12-12 23:28 software
drwx------ 8 chris chris 4096 2007-12-12 23:18 telecoms
drwx------ 8 chris chris 4096 2007-12-12 23:12 vehicles
drwx------ 4 chris chris 4096 2007-12-12 23:22 work
> Also running rsync with multiple -v options may help show what's wrong.
I have just tried from the command line and got no error, the error
was from a cron run lat night. I have added some -v to the crontab
and we'll see if I get a repeat of the error tonight.
>
> BTW, is there a reason why you're doing -r and not -a ?
>
I don't want some of the options that -a gives me, in particular not
the -D and -l.
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Chris Green
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