df says it is 85% full with 5 G left of 30. I sure hope it isn't dying.... I bought it less than a year ago. I only write to it around 8 times a month. as for how it is mounted this is the first time it has messed up on me since I bought it.

On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 11:01 PM, Bob Elzer <bob.elzer@gmail.com> wrote:

I have a feeling that your USB drive may be dying.

If it is flash, how many times have you copied to it? A lot?

What size is it? Is it near full?

On May 9, 2016 7:21 PM, "Michael" <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

what about this:

"read only file system" thing?

On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 10:15 PM, Sesso <sesso@djsesso.com> wrote:

Try using just --delete instead of --delete-before

Sent from my iPhone

On May 9, 2016, at 7:09 PM, Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

well, I just ran it with the trailing slash and it gave me the same output as before except it happened immediately. The USB drive wasn't accessd for five minutes.

On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 10:04 PM, Bob Elzer <bob.elzer@gmail.com> wrote:

My syncs look like this

Rsync -rauh  --delete  /frompath/fromdir   /topath/todir

This copies the fromdir into the todir directory and copies all files and directories below fromdir

-r   recursive
-a  archive - which is synonymous to -rlptgoD
-u  update :don't over write newer files
-W  copy whole files (don't do delta)
-h  human readable numbers

This backs up my stuff to an external drive, thus I don't need to do a delta or compression because it is all local
--delete  Any files that were removed from the source will be removed from the destination

If I were copying across a network, I add -z  and remove -W
Which will compress the transfer and only send changes when possible.

Normally I use --quiet and change it to --verbose or --progress when I want to monitor it

On May 9, 2016 4:05 PM, "Michael" <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

When I run rsync one file (a directory) will not sync and the files in that file. I was wondering why. I thought that maybe if the file was in there to start that would fix it and it does so if only temporarily. Upon the next run of rsync the directory in question is deleted.

the command that is run:

 $ rsync -aWuq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FAfv-aLaQR6HWUx8M-aZF4QL8oAsi6SH2Xg01vKpTPI/edit?usp=sharing

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