Help for: rsync error: partial transfer (code 23) at main.c(578)
Hi all-
I'm using rsync in a cron job to back up my main debian partition. It
looks like this:
rsync -avrx // /backroot/
(where / is /dev/hde1 and /backroot is hdg1).
When I run the cron job, I get:
...
delete_file: rmdir(usr/share/doc/ncurses-base) : Directory not empty
rsync: symlink "usr/share/doc/ncurses-base" -> "libncurses5": File exists
delete_file: rmdir(usr/share/doc/ncurses-bin) : Directory not empty
rsync: symlink "usr/share/doc/ncurses-bin" -> "libncurses5": File exists
delete_file: rmdir(usr/share/doc/ncurses-term) : Directory not empty
rsync: symlink "usr/share/doc/ncurses-term" -> "libncurses5": File exists
...
rsync error: partial transfer (code 23) at main.c(578)
...
Can anyone explain what code 23 really means (it isn't in the man page)
and why the comparatively simple structure of /usr/share/doc/ncurses-*
seems to trigger it? From looking at the destination (/backroot) it
appears that all that happened is that a bunch of directories turned
into a bunch of links... seems like rsync should be able to handle
that. This is what is in /backroot:
ls -al /backroot/usr/share/doc/ncurses-*
/backroot/usr/share/doc/ncurses-base:
total 120
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 17 06:22 .
drwxr-xr-x 278 root root 8192 Mar 17 14:50 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6896 Jan 25 10:28
changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92500 Jan 16 19:14 changelog.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3205 Jan 16 19:19 copyright
/backroot/usr/share/doc/ncurses-bin:
total 120
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 17 06:22 .
drwxr-xr-x 278 root root 8192 Mar 17 14:50 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6896 Jan 25 10:28
changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92500 Jan 16 19:14 changelog.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3205 Jan 16 19:19 copyright
/backroot/usr/share/doc/ncurses-term:
total 120
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 17 06:23 .
drwxr-xr-x 278 root root 8192 Mar 17 14:50 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6896 Jan 25 10:28
changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92500 Jan 16 19:14 changelog.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3205 Jan 16 19:19 copyright
areaj:~/logs# ls -al /backroot/usr/share/doc/libncurses5/
FAQ README.Debian changelog.Debian.gz
changelog.gz copyright
Any help greatly appreciated.
//Thomas
Thomas K. Burkholder
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