Re: file corruption

2013-03-09 Thread joop g
You said, the diff concerned just one byte, right? Were the corrupted files all Microsoft Office files? I have seen this behaviour once, and then it turned out to be the originals that had been changed in the meantime. It seems that Microsoft knows how to change a file without altering the modif

Re: Getting messages "failed to stat" only in cron execution

2012-05-30 Thread joop g
On Tuesday 08 May 2012 11:45:05 joop g wrote: > On Sunday 06 May 2012 09:48:27 joop g wrote: > > On Saturday 05 May 2012 17:46:25 Wayne Davison wrote: > > > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:17 AM, joop g wrote: > > > > ** > > > > > > > >

Re: Getting messages "failed to stat" only in cron execution

2012-05-08 Thread joop g
On Sunday 06 May 2012 09:48:27 joop g wrote: > On Saturday 05 May 2012 17:46:25 Wayne Davison wrote: > > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:17 AM, joop g wrote: > > > ** > > > > > > Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character (84) > > > > That look

Re: Getting messages "failed to stat" only in cron execution

2012-05-06 Thread joop g
On Saturday 05 May 2012 17:46:25 Wayne Davison wrote: > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:17 AM, joop g wrote: > > ** > > > > Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character (84) > > That looks like an OS error. Are you using a file system that rejects > invalid cha

Getting messages "failed to stat" only in cron execution

2012-05-03 Thread joop g
Hello, * When I am running a backup bash file under cron, I get lots of messages like the following: rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat "/mnt/tmp/backup/museum/documenten/secretariaat/vrijwilligers/medewerkersboek en poster/losse foto's medewerkers/oude foto's medewerkers die we willen bew

Re: backup to NTFS USB disk

2012-04-15 Thread joop g
On Friday 13 April 2012 21:22:42 jose...@main.nc.us wrote: > Since no one has replied yet, I have one idea that *might* point to part > of your problem. I've never had to deal with locale issues, so I have no > idea about that. > > You have directories and file names with blanks in them. In gene

Re: backup to NTFS USB disk

2012-04-12 Thread joop g
On Thursday 12 April 2012 11:20:54 joop g wrote: (I forgot to include my rsync commands) > mount -t ntfs-3g -o locale=nl_NL.iso-8859-1,silent > /dev/disk/by-id/usb-DiskA \ /mnt/tmp || > mount -t ntfs-3g -o locale=nl_NL.iso-9959-1,silent > /dev/disk/by-id/usb-DiskB \ /mnt/tmp || > m

backup to NTFS USB disk

2012-04-12 Thread joop g
Hello, * I am setting up a backup on a Linux system with Windows XP workstations. The backup goes to three alternating usb drives, each of which is NTFS formatted. The disks should be virtually identical but they do not seem to be. First, my mount command is this (I edited a bit for brevity) m