I'm not a whiz at this, but a couple of things look odd.
1) Your exclude file is *probably* in /home/holtzm - not in /holtzm
2) I don't think your source should be /. (although it might be right -
but it looks like rsync doesn't like it). I think that /. ought to be
the same as / . Usually it would be something like /* or */ if you
were already in the root directory.
I think the problem is that rsync wants files to backup, not just a
directory. /* gives it files (including directories because -r
(recursive) is implied by -a).
You also have to be aware that using a source path without a trailing
slash gets you the top level directory (which often is not what you
want). Adding the trailing / gets all the files in the directory without
that top level.
Since you are using -v, you may want to consider also using -i which
gives you a lot of better information when something goes wrong.
I'm sure some of the experts on this list can explain the /. issue way
better than I did, but this may be enough to get you unstuck.
HTH
Joe
On 01/20/2016 03:11 AM, Bob Holtzman wrote:
Running Debian 8.2, xfce 4.10, rsync 3.1.1-3. I just edited my backup script as
follows:
#The first line deletes extraneous files. The second does not and is used for
normal backups.
# rsync -vaHz --delete --exclude '/proc' --exclude '*.iso' --exclude '/sys'
--exclude '/home/holtzm/Documents/*.iso' --exclude '/media'
/. /media/cf0a98ed-3c11-4107-b61e-f5139d024396/Jessie-laptop
# rsync -vaHz --exclude '/proc' --exclude '/sys' --exclude '*.iso' --exclude
'/home/holtzm/Documents/*.iso' --exclude '/media'
/. /media/cf0a98ed-3c11-4107-b61e-f5139d024396/Jessie-laptop
##############################################################################################################################################
rsync -vaHz --delete --exclude '/holtzm/exclude' /.
/media/cf0a98ed-3c11-4107-b61e-f5139d024396/Jessie-laptop
# rsync -vaHz --exclude '/holtzm/exclude' /.
/media/cf0a98ed-3c11-4107-b61e-f5139d024396/Jessie-laptop
The lines above the hash marks are the original script which worked flawlessly.
Also, I just changed to an exclude file ($HOME/exclude) as follows:
'/dev'
'/lost+found'
'/proc'
'/media'
'/tmp'
'/*./*iso'
My problem is that when I run the script I get this error message:
root@localhost:/home/holtzm# scripts/backup
scripts/backup: line 4: /.: Is a directory
scripts/backup: line 7: /.: Is a directory
sending incremental file list
rsync: mkdir "/media/cf0a98ed-3c11-4107-b61e-f5139d024396/Jessie-laptop"
failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(674) [Receiver=3.1.1]
Tried running searches w/ no luck. Checked all the docs I could find w/ no luck.
Obviously, I screwed something up with the changes.
Any pointers appreciated.
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