On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 06:55:02PM -0700, Scott Webster wrote:
> It tries to create directories higher up in the structure after
> already failing...
OK, this error can also occur when removing a directory from the
destination that already exists in the backup hierarchy. I just
checked-in a fix f
Yeah, i know. Well, when I installed 2.6.3 the error message changed
(notice that it doesn't contain the string "make_bak_dir" anymore).
Here is another snippet of the error in action. You can see that it
isn't the problem you described (where there used to be a file name
that is now a directory
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 05:52:41PM -0700, Scott Webster wrote:
> and seems to be mistakenly trying to recreate the directory when
> copying another file in the same directory over?
I doubt it -- that is what 2.6.2 was doing, but not 2.6.3 -- 2.6.3 only
calls make_bak_dir() when it gets an ENOENT e
I erased that directory in that error message
(/home/swebster/fdtdtemp/temp/examples), which contained some files.
Now rsync is copying those files to the backup directory since I
specified --backup. Except that it already created the directory in
the --backup-dir directory (in this case "Tuesday
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 05:07:50PM -0700, Scott Webster wrote:
> rsync: mkdir "/mnt/usbhd/Tuesday/home/swebster/fdtdtemp/temp/examples"
> failed: File exists (17)
What kind of an update is rsync trying to do when that message happens?
I finally got that message if there was a file already backed u
Yes, I realized I forgot to paste the command in after I sent the
previous email. Sorry about that.
Here it is:
rsync --stats --delete-excluded --exclude Cache/ --exclude nobackup/
--exclude Trash/ --exclude .cxoffice/ --delete --backup
--backup-dir=/mnt/usbhd/`date +%A` -a /home /mnt/usbhd/curr
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 11:29:44AM -0700, Scott Webster wrote:
> Using version 2.6.3 now, which is supposed to fix bug number 1412.
> Although the frequency of the warnings seems to be reduced, now I get
> the following (slightly different) error message:
It would help if you mentioned what comma
Using version 2.6.3 now, which is supposed to fix bug number 1412.
Although the frequency of the warnings seems to be reduced, now I get
the following (slightly different) error message:
rsync: mkdir "/mnt/usbhd/Thursday/home/dbeaton/.kde/share/cache/http/v"
failed: File exists (17)
rsync: mkdir
