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Author: Michael
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Subject: Re: Invalid argument (22) and rsync
the filesystem is probably FAT because it is a thumb drive.... burned the
brain cells remembering what the partition manager is called....
gparted says the file system is fat32. You are so right about it not liking
the file names. I think it doesn't like the extension that rsync is adding
but why is it addding it?

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 6:34 PM, Brian Cluff <> wrote:

> What kind of file system is the destination writing to? It's highly
> likely that rsync is trying to write a file with a name that they
> destination file system doesn't like.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
>
> On 01/29/2016 04:04 PM, Michael wrote:
>
> but it was doing it fine before I downloaded the videos.
> Hmmmmmm..... I just tried it as:
>
> rsync -aWuq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents
> /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk
> rsync -rWuq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents
> /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk
> rsync -ruq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk
> rsync -rq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk
> rsync -r --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk
> rsync -a --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk
>
> And it keep doing the same thing:
>
> $ rsync -aWuv --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents
> /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk
> building file list ... done
> Documents/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/PrivateClients/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Sky/Blue/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Sky/Cloud1/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Sky/Cloud2/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Sky/Cloud3/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Sky/Cloud4/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Sky/Cloud5/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Sky/moon/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Vegetation/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Velocity/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Velocity/20160113/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Velocity/20160114/
>
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Velocity/20160114/darktable_exported/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Velocity/20160114/test/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/Velocity/test/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/ad/
> Documents/Business/PropertyPhotographing/ad/darktable_exported/
> Documents/Education/Darktable/
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:10WaterLilyEdit
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:117Features2.0
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:11Motorbike
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:12Geotagging
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:13Features1.4
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:14Masks
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:15ModuleEqualizer
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:16BacklitPictures
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:1intro
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:2
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:3NoiseReduction
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:4BootsEdit
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:5PerspectiveEdit
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:6HairEdit1
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:7HairEdit2
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:8HDR
> Documents/Education/Darktable/darktable-1:9Download
> Documents/Education/The GIMP/The GIMP Magazine/
> Documents/Plants/
> Documents/childsupport/
> rsync: mkstemp
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:10WaterLilyEdit.CccL3o"
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:117Features2.0.QBpFFt"
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:11Motorbike.8iELzH"
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:12Geotagging.oRmWTY"
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:13Features1.4.nyc6hk"
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:14Masks.RAs9aL"
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:15ModuleEqualizer.edwAId"
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:16BacklitPictures.iZSO4H"
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:1intro.Hkay7c"
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:2.FYqqhL"
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:3NoiseReduction.KN8Rzl"
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:4BootsEdit.gg6Pl1"
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:5PerspectiveEdit.VhV5EJ"
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:6HairEdit1.hx0tDt"
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:7HairEdit2.0SUXYe"
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:8HDR.HbGzj3"
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: mkstemp
> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:9Download.v7JmDV"
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
>
> sent 2,132,213,018 bytes received 2,828 bytes 69,908,716.26 bytes/sec
> total size is 8,091,764,760 speedup is 3.80
> rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors)
> (code 23) at main.c(1183) [sender=3.1.0]
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Brian Cluff <> wrote:
>
>> Those errors are probably occurring from copying files from a partition
>> that supports permissions to a drive/partition with something like a fat32
>> filesystem that does not support permissions.
>>
>> By changing the -a to a -r rsync simply copies the files instead of
>> trying to preserve all the permissions, so no errors.
>>
>> Brian Cluff
>>
>> On 01/29/2016 02:01 PM, Michael wrote:
>>
>> I run:
>>
>>    rsync -aWuq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents
>>    /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk

>>
>> and I get a bunch of errors that say:
>>
>>    rsync: mkstemp   "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/
>>    Darktable/.darktable-1:7HairEdit2.y4Qitq" failed: Invalid argument (22)

>>
>> in my search for an answer as to "why" I happened upon this
>> <http://howden.net.au/thowden/2011/02/rsync-windows-failed-invalid-argument-22/>.
>> (copied below for your convenience.) Their solution was to change the
>> archive tag (-a) to a recursive (-r) tag. What about the other settings
>> that -a preserves?
>> However, it didn't work for me and I just noticed that what rsync seems
>> to be doing is taking all of the videos I have in the folder "Darktable"
>> and refusing to copy them and in the error message appending the file name
>> with a 6 character string (.y4Qitq in the example shown).
>> Perhaps it is expecting a file type (.mp4 or something) and when it
>> doesn't find it creates it's own.
>>
>>
>> Rsync from linux server to a Windows server as a redundant backup using
>> cwrsync but getting an error for the chown command on the directories being
>> backed up.
>>
>> The issue was simple enough, stop telling rsync to change the owner as
>> the linux command is invalid on the windows server.
>> 1
>> rsync -atv /directorytobackup/ windo w sserver::cwshare
>>
>> changed to
>> 1
>> rsync -rtv /directorytobackup/ windo w sserver::cwshare
>>
>> and all is now quiet from an error message perspective.
>>
>> Thanks to Marcin <http://www.itefix.no/i2/node/12250> and Linux
>> Questions Forum
>> <http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/rsync-chown-errors-to-fat32-usb-drive-781736/> for
>> the solution.
>>
>> But I'm going from Linux to a USB drive.
>> --
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