[Bulk] Re: Backup with rsync problem

[William Case]

Thanks g;

On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 06:00 +0000, g wrote:
[snip]
> +++++
> DESCRIPTION
>     In  the  1st form, create a link to TARGET with the name LINK_NAME.  In
>     the 2nd form, create a link to TARGET in the current directory.  In the
>     3rd  and  4th  forms, create links to each TARGET in DIRECTORY.  Create
>     hard links by default, symbolic links with --symbolic.   When  creating
>     hard links, each TARGET must exist.
> +++++
> 
> last line may be saying something. rsync is trying to create a hard link.
> 
> also,
> 
> +++++
>    -d, -F, --directory
>           allow the superuser to attempt to hard link  directories  (note:
>           will  probably  fail  due  to  system restrictions, even for the
>           superuser)
> +++++
> 
> tho this is 'directory' it is saying 'hard link', which you are trying to do.
> and another reason to save rsync output. plus if you do not have to have hard
> links...
> 
Probably don't need the hard links.  I didn't fully understand them in
rsync, don't use them myself, and only threw -H in as an after thought.

> also, check your logs. something could be showing up there.
> 

> 
I have my head around it now.  Piping verbose (-v) to a log file is
something I never thought of -- should have.

One tends to get angry and flustered, after one blows their system by
trying to fix things with too many shortcuts and then finds parts of
their backups are 3 months out of date.

All my own fault, of course.  Should have checked that the whole script
was working (i.e included dot files) not just the regular file part.
-- 
Regards Bill