Question 1 I tried to backup another partition. The command I *THOUGHT* I gave was:
rsync --verbose --progress --stats --recursive --times --perms --links \ /media/richard/jessie8-6-sda6/ /media/richard/backups/jessie8-6-sda6/
I got a similar error message to last time (i.e. 'file not found'). The problem was a non-printing character (space?) after the first line). Is there a graphical editor which would high-lite that "something" is there? Question 2.When it ran I happened to be sitting by the display and noticed things of the form:
var/log/lightdm/x-2.log.old
963 100% 2.32kB/s 0:00:00 (xfr#88022, to-chk=21/128033)
var/log/speech-dispatcher/
var/mail/
var/opt/
var/spool/
var/spool/mail -> ../mail
var/spool/anacron/
var/spool/anacron/cron.daily
9 100% 0.02kB/s 0:00:00 (xfr#88023, to-chk=14/128033)
Do the lines not followed by statistics just mean "0 length files" or "it's just a link"?
At the end it said:
* Number of files: 128,033 (reg: 88,026, dir: 7,503, link: 32,466, dev: 37, special: 1)* * Number of created files: 127,995 (reg: 88,026, dir: 7,503, link: 32,466)*> Number of deleted files: 0
* sent 2,845,135,440 bytes received 1,819,035 bytes 2,837,024.89 bytes/sec *Number of regular files transferred: 88,026 Total file size: 2,837,281,458 bytes Total transferred file size: 2,836,525,656 bytes Literal data: 2,836,525,656 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 4,717,282 File list generation time: 0.001 seconds File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds Total bytes sent: 2,845,135,440 Total bytes received: 1,819,035
total size is 2,837,281,458 speedup is 1.00root@debian-jan13:~#
The high-lited lines caught my attention.I take the first two seem just to report that rsync is copying intelligently.
I don't understand what the third is telling me when there is a difference between bytes sent and received. I assume it is benign as the was no error reported.
TIA