I just stuck the drive in and let it automount. I suppose I could sudo rsync but why didn't I have to before the --delete-before was added?

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com> wrote:

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 <brian@snaptek.com

<mailto:brian@snaptek.com>> 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
        <jrefl5@gmail.com <mailto:jrefl5@gmail.com>

        <mailto:jrefl5@gmail.com <mailto:jrefl5@gmail.com>>> 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.

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