Backup ~/Documents

[Jonathan Lowsley]

"some files/attrs were not transferred" means that not all the files that
you wanted to transfer actually made it.  But if you look at the errors,
there are only 3 files that didn't get copied.  Assume the rest were copied
fine because it didn't complain.  Looking further at the file names and
destination path, perhaps the special characters like question mark and
pipe as well as trailing spaces might not be allowed on a FAT file system
(which I'm just assuming you are using because the destination path looks
like a USB stick).  Rename those 3 files and run again.

Jonathan

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 5:46 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I want to backup ~/Documents with rsync. This is what is happening: I
> entered the following command:
>
> $  rsync -aWuq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/USB\
> DISK/
>
> and it ran for like 30 seconds and then spit the following lines out:
>
> rsync: rename "/media/bmike1/USB DISK/Documents/.forwardspamto    .ZJNwHr"
> -> "Documents/forwardspamto    ": Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp "/media/bmike1/USB
> DISK/Documents/ComputerInstructions/.ForgotPassword?.qun1gW" failed:
> Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp "/media/bmike1/USB
> DISK/Documents/Education/.Screenshot-LFS101x.2 Progress | edX - Google
> Chrome.png.f4zleb" failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors)
> (code 23) at main.c(1183) [sender=3.1.0]
>
> Please.... what did it do? Did it back the few files I added or changed
> since my initial run of this command or did it barf all over the place?
> --
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
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