Question 1
I tried to backup another partition.
The command I *THOUGHT* I gave was:
rsync --verbose --progress --stats --recursive --times --perms --links \
/media/richard/jessie8-6-sda6/ /media/richard/backups/jessie8-6-sda6/
I got a similar error message to last time (i.e. 'file not found').
The problem was a non-printing character (space?) after the first line).
Is there a graphical editor which would high-lite that "something" is there?
Question 2.
When it ran I happened to be sitting by the display and noticed things
of the form:
var/log/lightdm/x-2.log.old
963 100% 2.32kB/s 0:00:00 (xfr#88022, to-chk=21/128033)
var/log/speech-dispatcher/
var/mail/
var/opt/
var/spool/
var/spool/mail -> ../mail
var/spool/anacron/
var/spool/anacron/cron.daily
9 100% 0.02kB/s 0:00:00 (xfr#88023, to-chk=14/128033)
Do the lines not followed by statistics just mean "0 length files" or
"it's just a link"?
At the end it said:
* Number of files: 128,033 (reg: 88,026, dir: 7,503, link: 32,466, dev:
37, special: 1)*
* Number of created files: 127,995 (reg: 88,026, dir: 7,503, link:
32,466)*> Number of deleted files: 0
Number of regular files transferred: 88,026
Total file size: 2,837,281,458 bytes
Total transferred file size: 2,836,525,656 bytes
Literal data: 2,836,525,656 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 4,717,282
File list generation time: 0.001 seconds
File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
Total bytes sent: 2,845,135,440
Total bytes received: 1,819,035
* sent 2,845,135,440 bytes received 1,819,035 bytes 2,837,024.89
bytes/sec *
total size is 2,837,281,458 speedup is 1.00
root@debian-jan13:~#
The high-lited lines caught my attention.
I take the first two seem just to report that rsync is copying
intelligently.
I don't understand what the third is telling me when there is a
difference between bytes sent and received. I assume it is benign as the
was no error reported.
TIA
