Hi, At Wed, 20 Jan 2016 01:11:58 -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > Running Debian 8.2, xfce 4.10, rsync 3.1.1-3. I just edited my backup script > as follows:
Your backup script is broken. > #The first line deletes extraneous files. The second does not and is used for > normal backups. > > # rsync -vaHz --delete --exclude '/proc' --exclude '*.iso' --exclude '/sys' > --exclude '/home/holtzm/Documents/*.iso' --exclude '/media' This is a comment. I love comment. > /. /media/cf0a98ed-3c11-4107-b61e-f5139d024396/Jessie-laptop This is NOT a comment. /bin/sh tries to invoke "/." as a command, but it fails. Try the following on your shell to reproduce it: $ /bin/sh $ /. foo bar sh: /.: Is a directory > # rsync -vaHz --exclude '/proc' --exclude '/sys' --exclude '*.iso' --exclude > '/home/holtzm/Documents/*.iso' --exclude '/media' > /. /media/cf0a98ed-3c11-4107-b61e-f5139d024396/Jessie-laptop Ditto. > ############################################################################################################################################## > > > rsync -vaHz --delete --exclude '/holtzm/exclude' /. > /media/cf0a98ed-3c11-4107-b61e-f5139d024396/Jessie-laptop --exclude option takes an extended glob pattern, not a file path. Use --exclude-from option instead and read rsync(1) manpage. > Also, I just changed to an exclude file ($HOME/exclude) as follows: > > '/dev' > '/lost+found' > '/proc' > '/media' > '/tmp' > '/*./*iso' Remove all "'"s. > My problem is that when I run the script I get this error message: > > root@localhost:/home/holtzm# scripts/backup > scripts/backup: line 4: /.: Is a directory > scripts/backup: line 7: /.: Is a directory See above. > sending incremental file list > rsync: mkdir "/media/cf0a98ed-3c11-4107-b61e-f5139d024396/Jessie-laptop" > failed: No such file or directory (2) > rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(674) [Receiver=3.1.1] Create /media/cf0a98ed-3c11-4107-b61e-f5139d024396 before running rsync. Rsync does NOT create the parent directory of the destination. > Tried running searches w/ no luck. Checked all the docs I could find w/ no luc -- -- Name: SATOH Fumiyasu @ OSS Technology Corp. (fumiyas @ osstech co jp) -- Business Home: http://www.OSSTech.co.jp/ -- GitHub Home: https://GitHub.com/fumiyas/ -- PGP Fingerprint: BBE1 A1C9 525A 292E 6729 CDEC ADC2 9DCA 5E1C CBCA -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html