Re: [LUG] rsync error.. tries to copy Trash folder

[Julian Hall <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/11/17 16:42, mr meowski wrote:
> On 05/11/17 13:19, Julian Hall wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Doing a weekly backup of my NAS by rsync I keep getting an error when it
> > tries to copy the Trash folder, which obviously I don't want it to copy
> > anyway:
> >
> > rsync: opendir "/media/julian/DIANA/.Trash-1000" failed: Permission
> > denied (13)
> >
> > I have tried excluding the specified folder as follows;
> >
> > sudo rsync -aAXv /media/julian/CASSIOPEIA /media/julian/ARTEMIS/
> > --delete --exclude={/media/julian/CASSIOPEIA/.Trash-1000}
> >
> > However it seems to ignore the exclusion. It's not a huge problem as
> > everything else copies properly, it's just an irritant.
> >
> > Any thoughts please?
Hi Mr Meowski,
> Either your copy/pasting has gone wrong or something more insidious is
> afoot... Your command looks sorta legit, if formatted a bit strangely -
> I'd do it like this:
>
> rsync -aAXSv --delete --exclude{.Trash-1000} /media/julian/CASSIOPEIA
> /media/julian/ARTEMIS/
I tried that as the normal user julian and had this error:

julian@Cerce ~ $ rsync -aAXSv --delete --exclude{.Trash-1000} 
/media/julian/CASSIOPEIA /media/julian/ARTEMIS
rsync: --exclude{.Trash-1000}: unknown option
rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1572) [client=3.1.1]
julian@Cerce ~ $
> Your excludes should be relative to the "left side" filepath which as
> "/media/julian/CASSIOPEIA" means you only pass it the extra argument
> ".Trash-1000" rather than the full
> "/media/julian/CASSIOPEIA/.Trash-1000" - but watch out for those
> trailing slashes which will seriously effect rsync's behaviour.
Then I tried the following, after your advice about not requiring the 
full path; it was probably looking for 
/media/julian/CASSIOPEIA/media/julian/CASSIOPEIA/.Trash-1000 which of 
course doesn't exist. So I modified my original command to give:

rsync -aAXv /media/julian/CASSIOPEIA /media/julian/ARTEMIS/ --delete 
--exclude={.Trash-1000}

That worked perfectly and with the normal user not sudo. You were right 
about DIANA by the way.. I copied and pasted the wrong example line, 
although I was getting the error for all my partitions.

Kind regards,

Julian

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