On Monday 28 May 2018 11:53:26 Richard Owlett wrote: > 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? > geany has quite a menu of things to enable visibility of inkless characters.
> 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 -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
