[CentOS] nightly rsync has started to throw errors

Hi all, I perform a nightly snapshot of /home to a USB attached drive scheduled via cron. The system is CentOS 5.2 and only gets attached to the internet periodically for updates, otherwise serves as a samba server to about 20 Windows clients. The rsync command being used is: rsync -av --delete

Re: [CentOS] nightly rsync has started to throw errors

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Ray Leventhal cen...@swhi.net wrote: rsync: mkstemp /media/bkup320G/cprcvs/c/Projects/WindowApps/DLL/HMRControlDLL/.CMDSettingsDialog.cpp,v.I5QnaM failed: Read-only file system (30) rsync: failed to set times on

Re: [CentOS] nightly rsync has started to throw errors

Ray Leventhal wrote: Any pointers or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Probably a silly question, but does the user running rsync have write access to the backup directory? -- Sincerely, John Thomas ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] nightly rsync has started to throw errors

Ray Leventhal wrote: Hi all, I perform a nightly snapshot of /home to a USB attached drive scheduled via cron. The system is CentOS 5.2 and only gets attached to the internet periodically for updates, otherwise serves as a samba server to about 20 Windows clients. The rsync command

Re: [CentOS] nightly rsync has started to throw errors

From: Ray Leventhal cen...@swhi.net rsync: mkstemp /media/bkup320G/cprcvs/c/Projects/WindowApps/DLL/HMRControlDLL/.CMDSettingsDialog.cpp,v.I5QnaM failed: Read-only file system (30) rsync: failed to set times on /media/bkup320G/cprcvs/c/Projects/WindowApps/DLL/PSIControlDLL: Read-only file

Re: [CentOS] nightly rsync has started to throw errors [solved, sorta]

Ray Leventhal wrote: Hi all, I perform a nightly snapshot of /home to a USB attached drive scheduled via cron. The system is CentOS 5.2 and only gets attached to the internet periodically for updates, otherwise serves as a samba server to about 20 Windows clients. The rsync command