On Friday 18 January 2008, Paul Gear wrote: > Hi. I'm trying to back up from an ext3 filesystem to an IOMega Rev USB > cartridge drive, which uses a UDF filesystem. It appears to the system > as /dev/scd0, but can be mounted in R/W mode. > > I get a bunch of errors like this: > rsync: mkstemp > "/media/usb/backup_dir/home/support/data-old/clipart/STANDARD/STDDIR3/.PE01 >617_.WMF.M9ACqm" failed: Input/output error (5) > > There are approximately 2500 files in the directory, all with similar > names. 38 of them copy correctly. The destination drive is not full. > What else could be causing this problem?
probably a filesystem error, not rsync. make sure you can copy the files by hand using `cp`. if that fails, you need to unmount the disk and run `fsck` on it. -mike
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