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Author: Michael Havens
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Subject: Re: Backup ~/Documents
that is what I was thinking but wasn't sure. I thought maybe some filess
that didn't copy weren't printed. Those files aren't exactly critical so
I'll leave it as it is. So, if I were to change the USBs filesystem the
files would copy?

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Jonathan Lowsley <>
wrote:

> "some files/attrs were not transferred" means that not all the files that
> you wanted to transfer actually made it. But if you look at the errors,
> there are only 3 files that didn't get copied. Assume the rest were copied
> fine because it didn't complain. Looking further at the file names and
> destination path, perhaps the special characters like question mark and
> pipe as well as trailing spaces might not be allowed on a FAT file system
> (which I'm just assuming you are using because the destination path looks
> like a USB stick). Rename those 3 files and run again.
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 5:46 AM, Michael Havens <> wrote:
>
>> I want to backup ~/Documents with rsync. This is what is happening: I
>> entered the following command:
>>
>> $ rsync -aWuq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/USB\
>> DISK/
>>
>> and it ran for like 30 seconds and then spit the following lines out:
>>
>> rsync: rename "/media/bmike1/USB DISK/Documents/.forwardspamto
>>  .ZJNwHr" -> "Documents/forwardspamto    ": Invalid argument (22)
>> rsync: mkstemp "/media/bmike1/USB
>> DISK/Documents/ComputerInstructions/.ForgotPassword?.qun1gW" failed:
>> Invalid argument (22)
>> rsync: mkstemp "/media/bmike1/USB
>> DISK/Documents/Education/.Screenshot-LFS101x.2 Progress | edX - Google
>> Chrome.png.f4zleb" failed: Invalid argument (22)
>> rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors)
>> (code 23) at main.c(1183) [sender=3.1.0]

>>
>> Please.... what did it do? Did it back the few files I added or changed
>> since my initial run of this command or did it barf all over the place?
>> --
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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