On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 09:42:57AM +0200, Morten Primdahl wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm running rsync 2.5.6. I use it to backup a RH 7.3 file server > (samba+appletalk) to a FAT32 external HD. I get the following output:
Huh? What in the world are you doing? That description sounds very strange. I presume the RH box is the source, what is the rsync destination box, how does samba+appletalk get involved for a FAT32. > .1e6prS failed: Invalid argumentsp_ind/Emails ind/.Icon > .fJ98aa failed: Invalid argumentsp_ud/Emails ud/.Icon > .qLRVCT failed: Invalid argumentkt/02_Tegninger/planer/ai/.Icon > .zM65uw failed: Invalid argumentkt/02_Tegninger/planer/fmz/.Icon The above messages are garbage. Incomplete. > mkstemp 2001_12_Villa_OpNed/01_Korrespondance ind/01 > Bygherre/Emails/.<None>.1.1.8sX6No failed: Invalid argument This makes little sense. Are you sure you ran configure? One other thing. Don't allow line-wrapping of error messages. > ... > ... > > What exactly constitutes the bad argument here? I'd guess the > dot-folder. What "dot-folder"? If you are talking about the garbage lines and .Icon is a folder i know it isn't mkstemp that is the problem but there is no telling what is. > Related question, I tried to use the same file for --exclude-from as I > use with tar -X, and incidentally it appeared to work. I only keep some > directory names in there, eg. > > .AppleDouble > Temporary Items > > These are directories created by the client machines and rsync does not > copy them to the destination. I tried to add .Icon in there and that did > not work as expected (I still get the above error messages). Any idea > why it would work for .AppleDouble but not .Icon? I know that it's > "luck" that the same exclude file works and that I should try and use > rsync exclude rules, but that doesn't explain .AppleDouble vs. .Icon. > > Thanks for any enlightenment, -- ________________________________________________________________ J.W. Schultz Pegasystems Technologies email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember Cernan and Schmitt -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html