rsync problem

[Michael]

df says it is 85% full with 5 G left of 30. I sure hope it isn't dying....
I bought it less than a year ago. I only write to it around 8 times a
month. as for how it is mounted this is the first time it has messed up on
me since I bought it.

On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 11:01 PM, Bob Elzer <bob.elzer at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a feeling that your USB drive may be dying.
>
> If it is flash, how many times have you copied to it? A lot?
>
> What size is it? Is it near full?
> On May 9, 2016 7:21 PM, "Michael" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> what about this:
>> "read only file system" thing?
>>
>> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 10:15 PM, Sesso <sesso at djsesso.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Try using just --delete instead of --delete-before
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On May 9, 2016, at 7:09 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> well, I just ran it with the trailing slash and it gave me the same
>>> output as before except it happened immediately. The USB drive wasn't
>>> accessd for five minutes.
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 10:04 PM, Bob Elzer <bob.elzer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> My syncs look like this
>>>>
>>>> Rsync -rauh  --delete  /frompath/fromdir   /topath/todir
>>>>
>>>> This copies the fromdir into the todir directory and copies all files
>>>> and directories below fromdir
>>>>
>>>> -r   recursive
>>>> -a  archive - which is synonymous to -rlptgoD
>>>> -u  update :don't over write newer files
>>>> -W  copy whole files (don't do delta)
>>>> -h  human readable numbers
>>>>
>>>> This backs up my stuff to an external drive, thus I don't need to do a
>>>> delta or compression because it is all local
>>>> --delete  Any files that were removed from the source will be removed
>>>> from the destination
>>>>
>>>> If I were copying across a network, I add -z  and remove -W
>>>> Which will compress the transfer and only send changes when possible.
>>>>
>>>> Normally I use --quiet and change it to --verbose or --progress when I
>>>> want to monitor it
>>>> On May 9, 2016 4:05 PM, "Michael" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> When I run rsync one file (a directory) will not sync and the files in
>>>>> that file. I was wondering why. I thought that maybe if the file was in
>>>>> there to start that would fix it and it does so if only temporarily. Upon
>>>>> the next run of rsync the directory in question is deleted.
>>>>> the command that is run:
>>>>>  $ rsync -aWuq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents
>>>>> /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FAfv-aLaQR6HWUx8M-aZF4QL8oAsi6SH2Xg01vKpTPI/edit?usp=sharing
>>>>>
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