Invalid argument (22) and rsync

Michael bmike1 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 29 17:14:49 MST 2016


and why is it making them invisible files?

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> the filesystem is probably FAT because it is a thumb drive.... burned the
> brain cells remembering what the partition manager is called....
> gparted says the file system is fat32. You are so right about it not
> liking the file names. I think it doesn't like the extension that rsync is
> adding but why is it addding it?
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 6:34 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:
>
>> 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> 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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