Invalid argument (22) and rsync

[Brian Cluff]

What kind of file system is the destination writing to?  It's highly 
likely that rsync is trying to write a file with a name that they 
destination file system doesn't like.

Brian Cluff

On 01/29/2016 04:04 PM, Michael wrote:
> but it was doing it fine before I downloaded the videos.
> Hmmmmmm..... I just tried it as:
>
>  rsync -aWuq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents 
> /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk
>  rsync -rWuq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents 
> /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk
>  rsync -ruq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents 
> /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk
>  rsync -rq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk
>  rsync -r --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk
>  rsync -a --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk
>
>  And it keep doing the same thing:
>
> $ rsync -aWuv --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents 
> /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk
> building file list ... done
> Documents/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/PrivateClients/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Sky/Blue/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Sky/Cloud1/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Sky/Cloud2/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Sky/Cloud3/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Sky/Cloud4/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Sky/Cloud5/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Sky/moon/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Vegetation/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Velocity/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Velocity/20160113/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Velocity/20160114/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Velocity/20160114/darktable_exported/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Velocity/20160114/test/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Velocity/test/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/ad/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/ad/darktable_exported/
> Documents/Education/Darktable/
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:10WaterLilyEdit
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:117Features2.0
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:11Motorbike
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:12Geotagging
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:13Features1.4
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:14Masks
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:15ModuleEqualizer
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:16BacklitPictures
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:1intro
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:2
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:3NoiseReduction
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:4BootsEdit
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:5PerspectiveEdit
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:6HairEdit1
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:7HairEdit2
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:8HDR
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:9Download
> Documents/Education/The GIMP/The GIMP Magazine/
> Documents/Plants/
> Documents/childsupport/
> rsync: mkstemp 
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:10WaterLilyEdit.CccL3o" 
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp 
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:117Features2.0.QBpFFt" 
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp 
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:11Motorbike.8iELzH" 
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp 
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:12Geotagging.oRmWTY" 
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp 
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:13Features1.4.nyc6hk" 
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp 
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:14Masks.RAs9aL" 
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp 
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:15ModuleEqualizer.edwAId" 
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp 
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:16BacklitPictures.iZSO4H" 
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp 
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:1intro.Hkay7c" 
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp 
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:2.FYqqhL" 
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp 
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:3NoiseReduction.KN8Rzl" 
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp 
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:4BootsEdit.gg6Pl1" 
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp 
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:5PerspectiveEdit.VhV5EJ" 
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp 
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:6HairEdit1.hx0tDt" 
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp 
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:7HairEdit2.0SUXYe" 
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp 
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:8HDR.HbGzj3" 
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp 
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:9Download.v7JmDV" 
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
>
> sent 2,132,213,018 bytes  received 2,828 bytes  69,908,716.26 bytes/sec
> total size is 8,091,764,760  speedup is 3.80
> rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous 
> errors) (code 23) at main.c(1183) [sender=3.1.0]
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com 
> <mailto:brian at snaptek.com>> wrote:
>
>     Those errors are probably occurring from copying files from a
>     partition that supports permissions to a drive/partition with
>     something like a fat32 filesystem that does not support permissions.
>
>     By changing the -a to a -r rsync simply copies the files instead
>     of trying to preserve all the permissions, so no errors.
>
>     Brian Cluff
>
>     On 01/29/2016 02:01 PM, Michael wrote:
>>     I run:
>>
>>        rsync -aWuq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents
>>        /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk
>>
>>      and I get a bunch of errors that say:
>>
>>        rsync: mkstemp "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/
>>        Darktable/.darktable-1:7HairEdit2.y4Qitq" failed: Invalid
>>     argument (22)
>>
>>     in my search for an answer as to "why" I happened upon this
>>     <http://howden.net.au/thowden/2011/02/rsync-windows-failed-invalid-argument-22/>.
>>     (copied below for your convenience.) Their solution was to change
>>     the archive tag (-a) to a recursive (-r) tag. What about the
>>     other settings that -a preserves? //
>>     However, it didn't work for me and I just noticed that what rsync
>>     seems to be doing is taking all of the videos I have in the
>>     folder "Darktable" and refusing to copy them and in the error
>>     message appending the file name with a 6 character string
>>     (.y4Qitq in the example shown).
>>     Perhaps it is expecting a file type (.mp4 or something) and when
>>     it doesn't find it creates it's own.
>>
>>
>>     Rsync from linux server to a Windows server as a redundant backup
>>     using cwrsync but getting an error for the chown command on the
>>     directories being backed up.
>>
>>     The issue was simple enough, stop telling rsync to change the
>>     owner as the linux command is invalid on the windows server.
>>
>>     1
>>     	
>>     |rsync -atv /directorytobackup/ windo w sserver::cwshare|
>>
>>     changed to
>>
>>     1
>>     	
>>     |rsync -rtv /directorytobackup/ windo w sserver::cwshare|
>>
>>     and all is now quiet from an error message perspective.
>>
>>     Thanks to Marcin <http://www.itefix.no/i2/node/12250> and Linux
>>     Questions Forum
>>     <http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/rsync-chown-errors-to-fat32-usb-drive-781736/> for
>>     the solution.
>>
>>
>>     But I'm going from Linux to a USB drive.
>>     -- 
>>     :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
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