<div dir="ltr"><div><div>I run:</div><div><br></div><div>   rsync -aWuq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents </div><div>   /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk</div></div><div><br></div><div> and I get a bunch of errors that say:</div><div><br></div><div><div>   rsync: mkstemp   "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/</div><div>   Darktable/.darktable-1:7HairEdit2.y4Qitq" failed: Invalid argument (22)</div></div><div><br></div><div>in my search for an answer as to "why" I happened upon <a href="http://howden.net.au/thowden/2011/02/rsync-windows-failed-invalid-argument-22/">this</a>. (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? <i> </i></div><div>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).</div><div>Perhaps it is expecting a file type (.mp4 or something) and when it doesn't find it creates it's own.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.57143;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.857143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.57143">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.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.857143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.57143">The issue was simple enough, stop telling rsync to change the owner as the linux command is invalid on the windows server.</p><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><div id="highlighter_162932" class="" style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;width:548.172px;margin:1em 0px!important;font-size:1em!important"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;color:rgb(117,117,117);width:548px;margin:0px!important;padding:0px!important;border:0px!important;font-size:1em!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;line-height:1.1em!important;border-radius:0px!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;font-family:Consolas,'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',Courier,monospace!important;direction:ltr!important;table-layout:auto!important;background:none!important"><tbody style="margin:0px!important;padding:0px!important;border:0px!important;font-size:1em!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;border-radius:0px!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;line-height:1.1em!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;width:auto!important;direction:ltr!important;background:none!important"><tr style="margin:0px!important;padding:0px!important;border:0px!important;font-size:1em!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;border-radius:0px!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;line-height:1.1em!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;width:auto!important;direction:ltr!important;background:none!important"><td class="" style="padding:0px!important;border:0px!important;font-size:1em!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;border-radius:0px!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;line-height:1.1em!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;width:auto!important;font-family:Consolas,'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',Courier,monospace!important;direction:ltr!important;color:rgb(175,175,175)!important;background:none!important"><div class="" style="margin:0px!important;padding:0px 0.5em 0px 1em!important;border-width:0px 3px 0px 0px!important;border-right-style:solid!important;border-right-color:rgb(108,226,108)!important;font-size:1em!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;border-radius:0px!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;line-height:1.1em!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;text-align:right!important;width:auto!important;direction:ltr!important;white-space:pre!important;background-image:none!important;background-repeat:initial!important">1</div></td><td class="" style="width:515px;padding:0px!important;border:0px!important;font-size:1em!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;border-radius:0px!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;line-height:1.1em!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;font-family:Consolas,'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',Courier,monospace!important;direction:ltr!important;background:none!important"><div class="" style="margin:0px!important;padding:0px!important;border:0px!important;font-size:1em!important;vertical-align:baseline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mportant;overflow:visible!important;width:auto!important;direction:ltr!important;white-space:pre!important;background-image:none!important;background-repeat:initial!important"><code class="" style="margin:0px!important;padding:0px!important;border:0px!important;font-size:1em!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;font-family:Consolas,'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',Courier,monospace!important;line-height:1.1em!important;border-radius:0px!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;width:auto!important;direction:ltr!important;display:inline!important;color:black!important;background:none!important">rsync -rtv /directorytobackup/ windowsserver::cwshare</code></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.857143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.57143">and all is now quiet from an error message perspective.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.857143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.57143">Thanks to <a href="http://www.itefix.no/i2/node/12250" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;outline:none;color:rgb(117,155,33)">Marcin</a> and <a href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/rsync-chown-errors-to-fat32-usb-drive-781736/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;outline:none;color:rgb(117,155,33)">Linux Questions Forum</a> for the solution.</p><div><br></div></div></div>But I'm going from Linux to a USB drive.<div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">:-)~MIKE~(-:</span><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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