I have not been watching this thread, and I've already moved them off,
but I'll stick my foot in my mouth and share some comments that may or
may not have anything to do with your issue, but which may be useful to
others anyway....

First, if you are not using 'tar' or 'cpio' or other program which
correctly handles 'character (and block) special files' you will sooner
or later find yourself copying much more than you should (think pipes
and other character or block special files - or, indeed, soft or hard
links!).

Also, I agree about making sure you either run it as root or make sure
the target dir is owned by you (maybe even in your group).  However, if
you are copying TO a network NTFS partition, you may have the same
'interesting' issues with dates and permissions and such.  But Matt
probably hit the nail on the head with 'who owns the mounted device'...

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org
[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Matt
Graham
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 3:23 PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Fwd: undelete bookmark folder

From: Michael Havens
[ trouble with a backup script that mounts a device with label
MY_BACKUPS on /mnt/backup and then rsyncs /home/mike to
/mnt/backup/mike/ ]
> I figure I should [invoke] the [backup] script with sudo. I think that

> will make it work but do not think that was the intent.

One of the things that I said to do several messages ago but probably
got forgotten was to take the destination directory (/mnt/backup/bmike
?) and chown it to your user.  The error messages you were reporting
(changing mtime not permitted, no files in the destination dir) make me
think the destination directory has the wrong ownership.  If you made
the dir as root, it'd be made as root:root and permissions 755 by
default, which would not work at all when you ran the script as a
regular user for obvious reasons.

> Also, how do I access the drive since it will not give me a nice 
> little window with the contents thereof when I stick the t-drive in 
> the computer?

If you need to restore from the backup disk, just mount it.  The command
for doing that is in the script ("mount /mnt/backup").

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