> rsync -aWuq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/Seagate
> rsync: mkdir "/media/bmike1/Seagate" failed: Permission denied (13)
Mike, this suggests that whatever user is login in to the remote box doesn't
have the rights to 'mkdir /media/bmike1/Seagate'

Login to that box with that user and run that mkdir.
If it fails (and most likely will), you know what the problem is.
Being that the problem, there is a wide array of options to overcome it.
ET



Michael writes:

>  rsync -aWuq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/Seagate
> rsync: mkdir "/media/bmike1/Seagate" failed: Permission denied (13)
> rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(675) [Receiver=3.1.2]
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 8:25 AM Snyder, Alexander J <
> alex@misteralexander.com> wrote:
>
>> What is the exact text of the error? What are the existing permissions of
>> what you're trying to backup?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alexander.
>>
>> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S8+
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 05:28 Michael <bmike1@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> I was trying to backup my system for the first time and rsync is throwing
>>> a permission denied error up. Did something change with rsync or is this a
>>> user error? How do I fix it?
>>>
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