Re: problems running backup
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:25:46PM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
> On 12/3/15, Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> wrote:
> > Just installed Jessie and I'm still picking my way thru it. When I tried
> > invoking "scripts/backup" as root I get:
> >
> > rsync: mkdir "/media/cf0a98ed-3c11-4107-b61e-f5139d024396/Jessie-laptop"
> > failed: No such file or directory (2)
> > rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(674) [Receiver=3.1.1]
> >
> > That second line is strange as I had just created the Jessie-laptop
> > directory.
> >
> > My backup script has always worked in Wheezy:
> >
> > rsync -vahHz --delete --exclude '/proc' --exclude '*.iso' --exclude
> > '/home/holtzm/mail/backup' --exclude '/sys ' --exclude '/tmp' --exclude
> > '/media' /. /media/cf0a98ed-3c11-4107-b61e-f5139d024396/Jessie-laptop
> >
> > Searching on the error message yielded zip. I'd appreciate any pointers
> > on how to attack this.
>
>
> Found this while thinning my inbox. Adding something for the archives
> from one who makes a lot of manual mistakes. I've seen similar errors
> under two different circumstances:
>
> 1) My target partition wasn't mounted. *oops*
>
> 2) Target partition was mounted BUT had quietly been auto-renamed by
> my system k/t that another partition was already bearing the same
> label name. Fodder for another eventual thread and why I love and
> advocate UUIDs over labels or other.
1) Target was external HD and was mounted.
2) Note the use of the UUID in my post. I'm with you.
3) I'm still at sea on this.
4) Thanks for the effort.
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