Re: problems running backup
On Thursday 21 January 2016 00:33:45 Bob Holtzman wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 04:59:05PM -0500, ken wrote:
> > On 01/20/2016 04:33 PM, Bob Holtzman wrote:
> > >>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.
> >
> > The simple matter of permissions is often the problem. This kind of
> > problem has cropped up for me before over an upgrade (not yet with
> > Debian though).
> >
> > Also, what exactly is the error message? Can you increase its
> > verbosity so's to examine that as well?
>
> In case you deleted my original post, the error message is:
>
> 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]
>
> I already had verbosity turned on except I believe that refers to the
> list of files as they're backed up. Not sure how to expand an error
> message, or even if that's possible.
>
> Permissions are 700 for the executable file.
>
> I'm snowed. Any other ideas?
Permissions of 0700 means that only the owner:group of that file can do
anything with it, nobody else can read it, or exec it.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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