Re: problems running backup
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 04:14:58AM -0500, ken wrote:
> On 01/21/2016 12:33 AM, 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?
> >
>
> Can you do at the cli
>
> 'mkdir "/media/cf0a98ed-3c11-4107-b61e-f5139d024396/Jessie-laptop"'
>
> as the same user as runs rsync?
As I said in an earlier post in this thread, I had created the Jessie-laptop directory previously.
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