Fwd: undelete bookmark folder

[Michael Havens]

I figure I should evoke the script with sudo. I think that will make it
work but do not think that was the intent. Also, how do I access the drive
since it will not give me a nice little window with the contents thereof
when I stick the t-drive in the computer?
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> well... I restarted but it didn't seem to have any effect. I saved the
> script to the desktop and made it executable and when I activate it the
> computer accesses the USB twice (after three seconds.... after three
> seconds it accesses it then 3 seconds later it accesses it again, but it
> will only do that once. subsequent activations of the script do nothing).
>
> Well I figured out I need to run it from a terminal.
>
> bmike1 at PresarioLapTop1:~/Desktop$ ./Backup\ bmike1
> building file list ... done
> rsync: mkdir "/mnt/backup/bmike1" failed: Permission denied (13)
> rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(605) [Receiver=3.0.9]
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (9 bytes received so far) [sender]
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(605)
> [sender=3.0.9]
> bmike1 at PresarioLapTop1:~/Desktop$
>
> so I made /mnt/backup/bmike1 but got this error:
>
> rsync: failed to set times on "/mnt/backup/bmike1/.": Operation not
> permitted (1)
> then it went through and copied the stuff in ~ and went on to mkdir for
> the next directory to copy  and got the ol permision denied thing. hmmmm
> maybe if I run it with sudo! but matt said no sudo should be necessary. So
> what is wrong?
>
> Furthermore, how do I access the backup drive? I checked in the directory
> I created but there is nothing in there so I assume it copied the files to
> the USB drive:
> bmike1 at PresarioLapTop1:/mnt/backup/bmike1$ ls /mnt/backup/bmike1
> bmike1 at PresarioLapTop1:/mnt/backup/bmike1$
>
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> now I need to restart for the new line in fstab to be recognized?
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net>wrote:
>>
>>> From: Michael Havens
>>> >> 3. Make an entry for the partition you made in your /etc/fstab :
>>> >> LABEL=MY_BACKUPS  /mnt/backup  ext3  noauto,users,noatime  0  0
>>> > In step 3 the "LABEL=..." entry in fstab makes it so that whatever has
>>> > the label MY_BACKUPS will be seen as the proper device regardless of
>>> > whether it is sdc, sdc1, sdd, etc....?
>>>
>>> If you have a LABEL= entry in your fstab, then when you mount the
>>> mountpoint
>>> for that entry, ("mount /mnt/backup" here), mount will query each block
>>> device
>>> in the system and ask it "Is your label MY_BACKUPS?"  If it gets a "yes"
>>> answer, it will mount that block device on that mountpoint.  mount knows
>>> where
>>> the filesystem labels live on all commonly used filesystems (ext234,
>>> reiserfs,
>>> xfs, jfs, FAT32, FAT16, NTFS, HFS+, and there are probably others I'm
>>> forgetting), and it can do this check pretty quickly under normal
>>> circumstances.
>>>
>>> If you have 2 block devices on the same system with the same filesystem
>>> label,
>>> and then you try to mount by label, stupid things will probably happen.
>>>  So
>>> don't do that.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Matt G / Dances With Crows
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