[nmglug] rsync, what the hey?

[ABQLUG]

Hi a,

I believe that error is saying you're rsyncing to a non-existing folder. 
What is the command you are using?

Also, what is the output of:
lsblk

Thanks,

Jared

On 5/27/19 3:57 PM, a wrote:
>
> Jared
>
> thanks for the reply I took the easy way out with permissions used 
> sudo nautilius. although it did dredge up shadow of the past with chmod.
>
> If you have the inclination can you illustrate rsync suggestions by 
> referring to the terminal output below in this email. I created a 
> backup folder. but get the following"  "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/"
>
> and this error message: "rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at 
> main.c(675) [Receiver=3.1.2] "
>
> If the problem is to messy to decipher I will concur. Then thanks all 
> the same, congrats on the new club. Best, a
>
>
> On 5/27/19 3:17 PM, ABQLUG wrote:
>> Hi a,
>>
>> When using rsync, the destination and originating path needs to exist.
>>
>> rsync -Prvvac /path/to/old/archive /path/to/new/archive
>>
>> If the destination path doesn't exist, 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.txt
>>
>> 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 (or ls a file you 
>> know that you own).
>> 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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