and why is it making them invisible files? On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Michael wrote: > the filesystem is probably FAT because it is a thumb drive.... burned the > brain cells remembering what the partition manager is called.... > gparted says the file system is fat32. You are so right about it not > liking the file names. I think it doesn't like the extension that rsync is > adding but why is it addding it? > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 6:34 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: > >> What kind of file system is the destination writing to? It's highly >> likely that rsync is trying to write a file with a name that they >> destination file system doesn't like. >> >> Brian Cluff >> >> >> On 01/29/2016 04:04 PM, Michael wrote: >> >> but it was doing it fine before I downloaded the videos. >> Hmmmmmm..... I just tried it as: >> >> rsync -aWuq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents >> /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk >> rsync -rWuq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents >> /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk >> rsync -ruq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents >> /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk >> rsync -rq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk >> rsync -r --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk >> rsync -a --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk >> >> And it keep doing the same thing: >> >> $ rsync -aWuv --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents >> /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk >> building file list ... done >> Documents/ >> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/PrivateClients/ >> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Sky/Blue/ >> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Sky/Cloud1/ >> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Sky/Cloud2/ >> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Sky/Cloud3/ >> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Sky/Cloud4/ >> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Sky/Cloud5/ >> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Sky/moon/ >> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Vegetation/ >> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Velocity/ >> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Velocity/20160113/ >> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Velocity/20160114/ >> >> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Velocity/20160114/darktable_exported/ >> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Velocity/20160114/test/ >> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Velocity/test/ >> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/ad/ >> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/ad/darktable_exported/ >> Documents/Education/Darktable/ >> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:10WaterLilyEdit >> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:117Features2.0 >> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:11Motorbike >> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:12Geotagging >> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:13Features1.4 >> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:14Masks >> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:15ModuleEqualizer >> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:16BacklitPictures >> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:1intro >> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:2 >> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:3NoiseReduction >> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:4BootsEdit >> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:5PerspectiveEdit >> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:6HairEdit1 >> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:7HairEdit2 >> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:8HDR >> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:9Download >> Documents/Education/The GIMP/The GIMP Magazine/ >> Documents/Plants/ >> Documents/childsupport/ >> rsync: mkstemp >> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:10WaterLilyEdit.CccL3o" >> failed: Invalid argument (22) >> rsync: mkstemp >> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:117Features2.0.QBpFFt" >> failed: Invalid argument (22) >> rsync: mkstemp >> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:11Motorbike.8iELzH" >> failed: Invalid argument (22) >> rsync: mkstemp >> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:12Geotagging.oRmWTY" >> failed: Invalid argument (22) >> rsync: mkstemp >> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:13Features1.4.nyc6hk" >> failed: Invalid argument (22) >> rsync: mkstemp >> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:14Masks.RAs9aL" >> failed: Invalid argument (22) >> rsync: mkstemp >> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:15ModuleEqualizer.edwAId" >> failed: Invalid argument (22) >> rsync: mkstemp >> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:16BacklitPictures.iZSO4H" >> failed: Invalid argument (22) >> rsync: mkstemp >> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:1intro.Hkay7c" >> failed: Invalid argument (22) >> rsync: mkstemp >> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:2.FYqqhL" >> failed: Invalid argument (22) >> rsync: mkstemp >> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:3NoiseReduction.KN8Rzl" >> failed: Invalid argument (22) >> rsync: mkstemp >> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:4BootsEdit.gg6Pl1" >> failed: Invalid argument (22) >> rsync: mkstemp >> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:5PerspectiveEdit.VhV5EJ" >> failed: Invalid argument (22) >> rsync: mkstemp >> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:6HairEdit1.hx0tDt" >> failed: Invalid argument (22) >> rsync: mkstemp >> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:7HairEdit2.0SUXYe" >> failed: Invalid argument (22) >> rsync: mkstemp >> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:8HDR.HbGzj3" >> failed: Invalid argument (22) >> rsync: mkstemp >> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:9Download.v7JmDV" >> failed: Invalid argument (22) >> >> sent 2,132,213,018 bytes received 2,828 bytes 69,908,716.26 bytes/sec >> total size is 8,091,764,760 speedup is 3.80 >> rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) >> (code 23) at main.c(1183) [sender=3.1.0] >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: >> >>> Those errors are probably occurring from copying files from a partition >>> that supports permissions to a drive/partition with something like a fat32 >>> filesystem that does not support permissions. >>> >>> By changing the -a to a -r rsync simply copies the files instead of >>> trying to preserve all the permissions, so no errors. >>> >>> Brian Cluff >>> >>> On 01/29/2016 02:01 PM, Michael wrote: >>> >>> I run: >>> >>> rsync -aWuq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents >>> /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk >>> >>> and I get a bunch of errors that say: >>> >>> rsync: mkstemp "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/ >>> Darktable/.darktable-1:7HairEdit2.y4Qitq" failed: Invalid argument >>> (22) >>> >>> in my search for an answer as to "why" I happened upon this >>> . >>> (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? >>> 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). >>> Perhaps it is expecting a file type (.mp4 or something) and when it >>> doesn't find it creates it's own. >>> >>> >>> 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. >>> >>> The issue was simple enough, stop telling rsync to change the owner as >>> the linux command is invalid on the windows server. >>> 1 >>> rsync -atv /directorytobackup/ windo w sserver::cwshare >>> >>> changed to >>> 1 >>> rsync -rtv /directorytobackup/ windo w sserver::cwshare >>> >>> and all is now quiet from an error message perspective. >>> >>> Thanks to Marcin and Linux >>> Questions Forum >>> for >>> the solution. >>> >>> But I'm going from Linux to a USB drive. >>> -- >>> :-)~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 >> > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: