rsync

[Michael Havens]

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 at 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 at 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 at c521 ~ $ sudo mkdir "/media/bmike1/USB DISK"
>> [sudo] password for bmike1:
>> bmike1 at 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 at c521 ~ $
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 2:33 AM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com
>> <mailto:brian at 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 at gmail.com <mailto:jrefl5 at gmail.com>
>>         <mailto:jrefl5 at gmail.com <mailto:jrefl5 at 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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