Kris probably has the right explanation. But it shouldn't matter -
multiple "/" in the middle of path have the same meaning as a single "/".
There are certain cases where a double leading '/' can have a special
meaning, although not on linux.
Paths with a trailing (or multiple trailing) "/" are usually equivalent to
no trailing "/", although programs can interpret a trailing "/" in
different ways (eg: rsync).
For more info, see the answer here
<https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1910/how-does-linux-handle-multiple-consecutive-path-separators-home-username>
.
Craig
On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 10:08 AM, Kris Lou <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a trailing slash on your TopDir?
>
> p.s. I just do straight rsync over SSH to OSX. But know that whatever
> permissions you use to access the client (or start rsyncd if you go that
> route) needs permissions on the client data as well.
>
>
> Kris Lou
> [email protected]
>
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 8:28 AM, Bob Katz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I think I've conquered the Thecus as a client and now for the next
>> challenging client: a macbook pro. Also via rsyncd. I have the daemon
>> running and what looks like a good rsyncd.conf file for the macbook pro.
>> I'm not using "secrets" and that seems to work as a philosophy for the
>> Thecus.
>>
>> However, the backup starts and immediately ends with this error:
>>
>> Can't open log file /var/lib/BackupPC//pc/bobs-macbook-pro.local/XferLOG.0
>>
>>
>>
>> The thing is there are two forward slashes in this error note which doesn't
>> make sense. I believe the correct route should be:
>>
>> /var/lib/BackupPC/pc/bobs-macbook-pro.local/XferLOG.0
>>
>>
>>
>> What do you think went wrong?
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>>
>>
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
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