Re: rsync commands help request

2023-05-27 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sat, 27 May 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/27/23 15:15, Max Pyziur wrote: On Sat, 27 May 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/27/23 13:36, Max Pyziur wrote: Where I seem to run into some trouble is when I try to restore from the dedicated drive when it is attached to a machine via USB cable. Spe

Re: rsync commands help request

2023-05-27 Thread Todd Zullinger
Max Pyziur wrote: > An example of a filename: > rsync: [receiver] mkstemp "/path/to/some/directory/WNYC's Leonard Lopate > Show/.wnyc_lopate.mp3?d=475.0atuCZ" failed: Invalid argument (22) > > It seems blanks and characters such as apostrophes, brackets, etc, cause > problems. ... > The HPFS/NTFS

Re: rsync commands help request

2023-05-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/27/23 15:15, Max Pyziur wrote: On Sat, 27 May 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/27/23 13:36, Max Pyziur wrote: Where I seem to run into some trouble is when I try to restore from the dedicated drive when it is attached to a machine via USB cable. Specifically, when running a command such as

Re: rsync commands help request

2023-05-27 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sat, 27 May 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/27/23 13:36, Max Pyziur wrote: Where I seem to run into some trouble is when I try to restore from the dedicated drive when it is attached to a machine via USB cable. Specifically, when running a command such as this: rsync -av /var/backup/machine1

Re: rsync commands help request

2023-05-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/27/23 13:36, Max Pyziur wrote: Where I seem to run into some trouble is when I try to restore from the dedicated drive when it is attached to a machine via USB cable. Specifically, when running a command such as this: rsync -av /var/backup/machine1/home/SomeUser /home I get a lot of messa

rsync commands help request

2023-05-27 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, I've been using rsync to backup from my various desktops and laptops to an in-house networked server. A variant of the script is appended below. Located in /etc/cron.hourly, the script pings a machine to see if it is live; if so, it proceeds to do an incremental backup to a machine