Apparently, though unproven, at 15:28 on Tuesday 16 November 2010, Mick did opine thusly:
> On 16 November 2010 09:00, Stefan G. Weichinger <li...@xunil.at> wrote: > > Am 15.11.2010 23:50, schrieb Mick: > >> Thanks Stefan, I'm afraid I'm still getting the same problem: > >> > >> rsync: opendir "/mnt/User_WinXP/System Volume Information" failed: > >> Permission denied (13) > >> > >> Why is rsync trying to open this directory, when I thought I've asked it > >> to exclude it? > > > > Maybe you did it wrong? > > > > ;-) > > > > You don't show us what you did ... > > I ran the same as before but changed the path to the one you suggested: > > =============================== > 'rsync -a -l -v --exclude "./System Volume Information" > -e "ssh -c blowfish -l root" /mnt/User_WinXP/ > 10.10.10.25:/home/httpd/backup' > > sending incremental file list > rsync: opendir "/mnt/User_WinXP/System Volume Information" failed: > Permission denied (13) > > [snip ...] > > rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous > errors) (code 23) at main.c(1042) [sender=3.0.7] > =============================== > > The System Volume is shown as 0700 (mounted with default permissions) > and is owned by root when viewed from Gentoo. Don't think of --exclude as being a file path match, think of it as more a regex (usually just a literal one). It specifies a pattern that if found if the full pathname, results in the file not being synced. The string "./System Volume Information" of course appears nowhere in the rsync output list of files. I think you want: --exclude "/System Volume Information" Then rsync will not attempt to open the directory at all -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
