[mythtv-users] Slightly OT: rsync backup from mythbox -> desktop/FE

Bobby Gill bobbygill at rogers.com
Sat Nov 1 01:16:51 UTC 2008


Home network has mythbox + desktop, with shares mounted both ways via NFS. I
am trying to get rsync working so it will backup my server's home+root to my
desktop's backup partition. Here's the error:

/media # sudo rsync -avzdp --progress --delete --exclude=/root
--exclude=/var/tmp/kde* --exclude=/proc --exclude=/home
--exclude=/media --exclude=/var/cache/pacman --exclude=/tmp/*
--exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/var/backup --exclude=/mnt
--exclude=/usr/man --exclude=/var/abs --exclude=/sys /
/media/desktopseagate/backup/server/root/
sending incremental file list
./
rsync: failed to set times on
"/media/desktopseagate/backup/server/root/.": Permission denied (13)
.mythtv/
rsync: recv_generator: mkdir
"/media/desktopseagate/backup/server/root/.mythtv" failed: Permission
denied (13)
*** Skipping any contents from this failed directory ***
.qt/
rsync: recv_generator: mkdir
"/media/desktopseagate/backup/server/root/.qt" failed: Permission
denied (13)
*** Skipping any contents from this failed directory ***
bin/
rsync: recv_generator: mkdir
"/media/desktopseagate/backup/server/root/bin" failed: Permission
denied (13)
*** Skipping any contents from this failed directory ***
boot/
rsync: recv_generator: mkdir
"/media/desktopseagate/backup/server/root/boot" failed: Permission
denied (13)
*** Skipping any contents from this failed directory ***
dev/
rsync: recv_generator: mkdir
"/media/desktopseagate/backup/server/root/dev" failed: Permission
denied (13)
*** Skipping any contents from this failed directory ***
etc/
rsync: recv_generator: mkdir
"/media/desktopseagate/backup/server/root/etc" failed: Permission
denied (13)
*** Skipping any contents from this failed directory ***
lib/
rsync: recv_generator: mkdir
"/media/desktopseagate/backup/server/root/lib" failed: Permission
denied (13)
*** Skipping any contents from this failed directory ***
opt/
rsync: recv_generator: mkdir
"/media/desktopseagate/backup/server/root/opt" failed: Permission
denied (13)
*** Skipping any contents from this failed directory ***
sbin/
rsync: recv_generator: mkdir
"/media/desktopseagate/backup/server/root/sbin" failed: Permission
denied (13)
*** Skipping any contents from this failed directory ***
srv/
rsync: recv_generator: mkdir
"/media/desktopseagate/backup/server/root/srv" failed: Permission
denied (13)
*** Skipping any contents from this failed directory ***
tmp/
rsync: recv_generator: mkdir
"/media/desktopseagate/backup/server/root/tmp" failed: Permission
denied (13)
*** Skipping any contents from this failed directory ***
usr/
rsync: recv_generator: mkdir
"/media/desktopseagate/backup/server/root/usr" failed: Permission
denied (13)
*** Skipping any contents from this failed directory ***
^Crsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at
rsync.c(541) [sender=3.0.4]
/media #



All mounted partitions via NFS both ways are fully read+writable, I can make
dirs/touch files no sweat in shell. Why is the rsync not working (clearly
due to permissions) ??


Thanks for any help fellas
Bob
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