Did you mount the drive as a different user than bmike1? Brian Cluff On 09/25/2015 05:12 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > It didn't do this before. Why will it not create a directory? But wait! > The directory already exists. > > bmike1@c521 ~ $ rsync -aWq --progress --delete-before --compress-level=5 > /home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/"USB DISK"/ > rsync: mkdir "/media/bmike1/USB DISK" failed: Permission denied (13) > rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(674) [Receiver=3.1.0] > bmike1@c521 ~ $ sudo mkdir "/media/bmike1/USB DISK" > [sudo] password for bmike1: > bmike1@c521 ~ $ rsync -aWq --progress --delete-before --compress-level=5 > /home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/"USB DISK"/ > rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/media/bmike1/USB DISK/Documents" failed: > Permission denied (13) > *** Skipping any contents from this failed directory *** > rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) > (code 23) at main.c(1183) [sender=3.1.0] > bmike1@c521 ~ $ > > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 2:33 AM, Brian Cluff > wrote: > > In rsync, incremental recursion, refers to memory saving technique > where it starts transferring files while only reading in a subset of > the list of files that will be transferred. > If you use --delete-before rsync will have to know the whole list of > files so it will know what to delete, so naturally incremental > recursion gets turned off because leaving it on conflicts with that > you have asked it to do. > > Brian Cluff > > On 09/24/2015 06:12 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > > Thanks for sharing with me about --delete-before. In my subsequent > investigation into it's use I found the manpage says that using that > option disables 'incremental recursion'. What is 'incremental > recurssion'? I assume that I will still be able to backup lower > level > directories. > > > Some options require rsync to know the full file > list, so > these > options disable the incremental recursion > mode. These > include: > --delete-before, --delete-after, > --prune-empty-dirs, > and > --delay-updates. Because of this, the default > delete > mode when > you specify --delete is now --delete-during > when both > ends of > the connection are at least 3.0.0 (use --del or > --delete-during > to request this improved deletion mode explicitly). > See also > the --delete-delay option that is a better > choice > than using > --delete-after. > > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:11 PM, James Crawford > > >> wrote: > > Mike, > you can have rsync do the deletes prior to copying > files over > --delete-before receiver deletes before > xfer, not > during > You can also delete the excluded files if you use some > form of > the exclude command, > --delete-excluded also delete excluded files > from > dest dirs > > James C. > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss