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Re: [LUG] Using rsync basics

 

On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 17:15 +0100, james kilty wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 15:19 +0100, kevin wrote:
> 
> > this works for me 
> > To transfer from Shop on Shop  to kevinspc as root do  
> > 
> > rsync -avz  ~shop/Documents/ kevinspc:~kevin/shoprsync/ 
> I used the following in my first attempt to use rsync on my desktop.
> rsync -avz ~james/Documents/ /media/FREECOM/rsyncdocsdesk/
> 
Can you write this to /tmp instead?
I feel you have a write permissions problem for /media
> I get the error
> rsync: failed to set times on "media/FREECOM/rsyncdocsdesk/." Operation
> not permitted (1)
> it seemed to copy the few files there but no directories. It gave the
> error
> Cbibbg/
> rsync: recv generator: mkdir/"media/FREECOM/rsyncdocsdesk/Cbibbg failed:
> permission denied (13)
> 
> The owner of FREECOM is root. So I did it with sudo
> 
> It worked through a huge number of files unsuccessfully. I got the
> following error in every case (with corresponding destination name):
> 
> rsync: chown /media/FREECOM/rsyncdocsdesk/Cbibbg" failed: Operation not
> permitted (1). 
> 
> They all seem to be folders.
> 
> I tried to change permissions using sudo konqueror, which I thought I
> had done successfully some weeks ago, but I get the following error on
> opening konqueror:
> 
> Error: "var/tmp/kdecache-james" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0
> (and a few other files in tmp and var)
> 
> If I then try to change permissions (which again I thought I had done
> successfully before and I was then able to write files on the disc which
> mounts every time now after I managed to create a mount point myself)
> I get a large number of the following:
> QObject::connect: (sender name:   'job')
> ditto             (receiver name: 'unnamed')
> ditto            No such signal
> KIO:SimpleJob::redirection(KIO::Job*.const KURL&)
> 
> If I try chown for the first time with
> sudo chown james -R /media/FREECOM/
> 
> I get a lot of the files looked at and get:
> 
> chown: changing ownership of '/media/FREECOM/': operation not permitted
> (for all the files listed)
> 
> Strangely I don't get all folders listed and the ones not mentioned have
> not changed in ownership.
> 
> FINALLY AFTER ALL THAT I looked at the folder rsyncdocsdesk and it seems
> to have most of the stuff there (296 sybfolders with 4574 files instead
> of 300 subfolders with 4616 files)! I am sure you will recognise that I
> am confused about what has been happening here.
> 
> Perhaps you could assist my decoding of the information and the apparent
> success against all indications and give me pointers for the next time I
> use rsync.
> 
> Of course FREECOM is formatted with FAT32. I cannot now write to it by
> dragging and dropping in Konqueror! Nor with cp command:
> cp ~james/Documents/sudoku3.ods /media/FREECOM/
> I get 
> cp: cannot create regular file '/media/FREECOM/sudoku3.ods': Permission
> denied.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -- 
> james kilty
> http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk
> 
> 
Regards

Kevin Lucas
Minions Post Master(Sub) reprieved 
Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE
01579363386


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