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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