Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 23:10:45 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca Cc: "James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Rsync woes Message-ID: <20170926231045.6253e3d9.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <674aa8d7c7c74263bb11c00e5ab41279.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> References: <674aa8d7c7c74263bb11c00e5ab41279.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca>
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On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 17:05:00 -0400, James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions wrote: > When transferring files via rsync I am receiving many, many errors of > the following form: > > rsync: chown > "/media/usbkey/vhost04/byrnejb_hll/Documents/HLL/Forwarding/DGR_Shipments/HLL_TDG_Air_2014_Blue_Form.ott" > failed: Invalid argument (22) > > > The rsync command used is: > > rsync -acsvxHAX --append-verify --exclude '\.*' --exclude 'tmp' > --exclude 'javahotpot' --exclude 'lost+found' --progress > /home/byrnejb_hll /media/usbkey/vhost04 > > What is causing the errors? Just to rule out the obvious: With which file system has the USB key been initialized? Are the access permissions set accordingly? As you can see from the error message, the file in question cannot be chown'ed. You could try this manually (with one file) to verify. > I am also encountering another problem with the same transfer in that > rsync apparently just stops transferring and I must use <ctrl>C to > exit the program and restart it to continue the transfer. What causes > this? Monitor the program with top / htop when this happens. Is the rsync program waiting for an I/O resource to become available? Has it been suspended? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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