I partitioned a 1 TG usbdrive as ext3, mounted it as /usbmem and entered the command rsync -r / /usbmem. The tranfer proceeded with many messages "skipping non-regular file 'foo'". Eventually the transfer hung up with some messages "file has vanished 'foo'". I aborted with a ctl-c. df -h reported
Script started on Thu 21 Jul 2011 06:08:03 PM EDT dragon:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdc1 71G 48G 20G 72% / tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /lib/init/rw udev 2.0G 276K 2.0G 1% /dev tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm /dev/sdb5 44G 181M 42G 1% /i386chroot /dev/sdb6 276G 76G 186G 30% /data /dev/sda1 1.7G 35M 1.6G 3% /temp /dev/sda5 27G 4.9G 21G 20% /storage /dev/sdd1 917G 101G 770G 12% /usbmem dragon:~# exit Script done on Thu 21 Jul 2011 06:08:14 PM EDT Clearly most of the files have been transfered and I can read them on /usbmem. My object had been to backup everything before moving from Squeeze to Wheezy Any Suggestions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110721233933.ga24...@tomgeorge.info
