Mike Frysinger wrote: > 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.
The boss chose the best possible solution to this problem: they're only old clipart files, so he deleted them. :-) Thanks for your help anyway. Paul
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