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~(-: