Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2

[Paul Stear]

On Thursday 09 Mar 2006 18:15, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Paul Stear <gentoo@××××××××××××.com> writes:
> > On Thursday 09 Mar 2006 15:36, Harry Putnam wrote:
> >> Paul <gentoo@××××××××××××.com> writes:
> >> > All files copy with no errors but symlinks always fail with the
> >> > message: symlink "/mnt/network/usr/lib/libgstinterfaces-0.8.so.0" ->
> >> > "libgstinterfaces-0.8.so.0.1.0" failed: Operation not supported
> >> >
> >> > I am wondering if this is a permissions problem.
> >> > My network usb server will not let me have a user called root so I
> >> > have set user paul with the 'can do anything' previlege.
> >> > The mount and rsync commands are using user root
>
Windows identifies the Network Storage Link as a windows NT 4.9 server
>
> > I am mounting the network usb drive using cifs
> > The network storage unit is a LINKSYS Network Storage Link for USB 2.0
> > Disk Drives.
>
I have 2 discs attached to the server and the server setup program formatted 
them as ext3

> About permissions...:
> It may not be so easy to tell..  here is what a ls -l on a NSFS
> (winXP) mounted from gentoo looks like:
>
>   -rwxrwSrwt 1 root root        258 Oct 28 22:11 cdiag.txt
>
ls -l /mnt/network/home
total 12
drwxrwxr-x   6 2000 501 0 Mar  8 16:55 music
drwxrwxr-x  94 2000 501 0 Mar  9 00:07 paul

ls -l /mnt/network/home/paul/Mail
total 128
drwxrwxr-x  5 2000 501 0 Mar  9 15:23 Gimp
drwxrwxr-x  5 2000 501 0 Mar  9 15:25 KDE

> >> > All files copy with no errors but symlinks always fail with the
> >> > message: symlink "/mnt/network/usr/lib/libgstinterfaces-0.8.so.0" ->
> >> > "libgstinterfaces-0.8.so.0.1.0" failed: Operation not supported
>

> One way is to have rsync copy the actual file the symlink is pointing
> too.
It looks as if this may be the only option

> > This is the error when copying the Mail directory
> > mkstemp
> > "/mnt/network/home/paul/Mail/Gimp/cur/.1133608028.9158.nxwHc:2,S.CDg1dQ"
> > failed: Not a directory
>
> This one is more insteresting
>
> You might change your command line to include another -v and an STDERR
>   outlet to file like this:
>
>   rsync -Cavv --delete --progress --exclude '*tmp*' --exclude
>      '*Trash*' /usr /mnt/network 2>er.log
attached is the er.log
Its strange, yesterday some mail files were copied but the file names had all 
been truncated e.g. 1012B0~ instead of 1140956627.10049.kTtle:2,S
My last run of rsync on my Mail directory deleted all of the contents but did 
not copy any file.

I am lost now

Paul
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