[nmglug] rsync, what the hey?

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Mon May 27 13:56:14 PDT 2019


Hi a,

When using rsync, the destination path needs to exist.

rsync -Prvvac /path/to/old/archive /path/to/new/archive

Both of those paths needs to already exist. If they don't you will need 
to mkdir and mount accordingly.

However, your original question is how to change folder/file permissions.

This is how to change which user and group can access/edit a file.
sudo chown username:usergroup /path/to/file

This is how to change which user and group can access/edit a folder and 
everything in that folder:
sudo chown -R username:usergroup /path/to/folder

This is how I would do it on my current system (to change user access to 
a folder):
sudo chown jr:jr /path/to/file

I know to use jr:jr because I did this:

ls -l .bash_history
-rw------- 1 jr jr 69881 May 24 13:34 .bash_history

To do this you will need to be in your user folder.
pwd
/home/jr

I didn't cover chmod, so let us know if you still can't access the 
folder you're trying to access.

Regards,

Jared

On 5/27/19 9:25 AM, a wrote:
> Hi
>
> Can anyone explain, attachment .png of uuid info. error seems to be 
> between  /media/a/uuid and a "switch"  occurs /media/uuid, what the hey/
>
> a at alap:~$ rsync -av --delete --exclude=".*/" /home/a/ 
> /media/your_uuid/backup
> sending incremental file list
> rsync: mkdir "/media/your_uuid/backup" failed: No such file or 
> directory (2)
> rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(675) [Receiver=3.1.2]
> a at alap:~$ rsync -av --delete --exclude=".*/" /home/a/ 
> /media/6fbdc743-fc0f-46e4-aea3-8160914c34ec/backup
> sending incremental file list
> rsync: mkdir "/media/6fbdc743-fc0f-46e4-aea3-8160914c34ec/backup" 
> failed: No such file or directory (2)
> rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(675) [Receiver=3.1.2]
> a at alap:~$ cd /media/0435f0ab-9dfd-4d9d-ae8b-53101d419ac8
> bash: cd: /media/0435f0ab-9dfd-4d9d-ae8b-53101d419ac8: No such file or 
> directory
> a at alap:~$ mkdir backup
> a at alap:~$ cd /media/a/6fbdc743-fc0f-46e4-aea3-8160914c34ec
> a at alap:/media/a/6fbdc743-fc0f-46e4-aea3-8160914c34ec$ mkdir backup
> mkdir: cannot create directory ‘backup’: File exists
> a at alap:/media/a/6fbdc743-fc0f-46e4-aea3-8160914c34ec$
> a at alap:/media/a/6fbdc743-fc0f-46e4-aea3-8160914c34ec$ cd
> a at alap:~$  rsync -av --delete --exclude=".*/" /home/a/ 
> /media/6fbdc743-fc0f-46e4-aea3-8160914c34ec/backup
> sending incremental file list
> rsync: mkdir "/media/6fbdc743-fc0f-46e4-aea3-8160914c34ec/backup" 
> failed: No such file or directory (2)
> rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(675) [Receiver=3.1.2]
> a at alap:~$
>
>
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