A) rdiff 

You might use dircmp instead of rdiff to include the dot . files?  

dircmp holtzcm /media/disk/home 


B) rsync 

1) rsync reports a code 23 when there's a problem with the
password file, even when the right password is supplied and files are
transferred.
http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@lists.samba.org/msg19786.html

2) Various versions of rsync/CVS included a bug that there was an issue with password file (Probably not your issue) reported as error 23.

3) Samba often reports a code 23 when issues occur for permissions.

http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2007-July/017975.html


4) rsync reports a code 23 when permissions for read only access do not match the owner running the sync job, irregardless of if all files are transferred.


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> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:23:44 -0700
> From: holtzm@cox.net
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: rsync error message
> 
> Tried rsync -av /home/username /media/disk for the first time. Every 
> thing appeared to go well but there was an error message at the end:
> 
> rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at 
> main.c(977) [sender=2.6.9]
> 
> Running "diff -r /home/holtzm /media/disk/home" returned nothing which 
> indicates they are identical. The question is what files could not be 
> transferred and is there a better way of checking?
> 
> Any help appreciated.
> 
> -- 
> Bob Holtzman
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>   check the price of the beer"
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