On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:23:07 +0100 luxxius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And I'm glad to know I can simply ignore the rsync chgrp errors as > being a product of the MS file system's ignorance!
Rather than just ignoring the errors you can tell rsync not to try and set permissions or group with the --no-p and --no-g options and then if there are any errors that actually need worrying about you wont miss them assuming the output is the normal errors that don't matter. My own backup command is: rsync --no-p --no-g -r ~/Music/ /media/Elements/Music/ One thing I'd suggest for the future is not to use numerical permissions when manipulating them. chmod lets you specify the permissions using r,w and x and a,u,g, and o for who the permissions apply to (the syntax is in the chmod man page) and this is a lot less error prone. Your computer can turn the symbols into the required number faster and more accurately than you (or at least I) can. ________________________________________________________ Robert McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ormiret.com Give a man a match and he'll be warm for an hour... Set him on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/