Re: Seeing with comprehension - was [ rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?]

2018-05-28 Thread Dan Purgert
Richard Owlett wrote: > Question 1 > [...] > 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/s0:00:00 (xfr#88022, to-chk=21/128033) >> var/log/speech-dispatcher/ >>

Re: Seeing with comprehension - was [ rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?]

2018-05-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/28/2018 12:57 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: Question 1 [...] 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/s0:00:00 (xfr#88022, to-chk=21/128033)

Re: Seeing with comprehension - was [ rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?]

2018-05-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/28/2018 11:18 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/28/2018 10:58 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: 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

Re: Seeing with comprehension - was [ rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?]

2018-05-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/28/2018 10:58 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: 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/

Re: Seeing with comprehension - was [ rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?]

2018-05-28 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 10:53:26AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Question 1 [...] > Is there a graphical editor which would high-lite that "something" is there? Emacs, whitespace mode. It'll show you trailing space, tabs, overlong lines... you

Re: Seeing with comprehension - was [ rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?]

2018-05-28 Thread Gene Heskett
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/ > >

Seeing with comprehension - was [ rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?]

2018-05-28 Thread Richard Owlett
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

Re: rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?

2018-05-28 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-05-28 at 09:08, David wrote: > On 28 May 2018 at 22:47, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> But that raises another question. >> Why does error message identify a protocol problem after having correctly >> identified the problem as "No such file or directory". > > man rsync

Re: rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?

2018-05-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/28/2018 08:08 AM, David wrote: On 28 May 2018 at 22:47, Richard Owlett wrote: But that raises another question. Why does error message identify a protocol problem after having correctly identified the problem as "No such file or directory". man rsync says: "EXIT

Re: rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?

2018-05-28 Thread Dan Purgert
Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/28/2018 07:15 AM, David wrote: >> On 28 May 2018 at 22:07, Richard Owlett wrote: >> Which would explain why rsync says: >> "rsync: change_dir "/media/root/drescued_commo" failed: No such file >> or directory (2)" >> >> Does that help? >> > > >

Re: rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?

2018-05-28 Thread David
On 28 May 2018 at 22:47, Richard Owlett wrote: > > But that raises another question. > Why does error message identify a protocol problem after having correctly > identified the problem as "No such file or directory". man rsync says: "EXIT VALUES 0 Success

Re: rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?

2018-05-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/28/2018 07:15 AM, David wrote: On 28 May 2018 at 22:07, Richard Owlett wrote: I had used rsync to back up a different partition with no problems. I used that command as a model to attempt to backup another partition. root@debian-jan13:~# root@debian-jan13:~# rsync

Re: rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?

2018-05-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/28/2018 07:15 AM, likcoras wrote: On 05/28/2018 09:07 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: I had used rsync to back up a different partition with no problems. I used that command as a model to attempt to backup another partition. root@debian-jan13:~# root@debian-jan13:~# rsync --verbose 

Re: rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?

2018-05-28 Thread likcoras
On 05/28/2018 09:07 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I had used rsync to back up a different partition with no problems. > > I used that command as a model to attempt to backup another partition. > >> root@debian-jan13:~# root@debian-jan13:~# rsync --verbose  --progress >> --stats --recursive --times

Re: rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?

2018-05-28 Thread David
On 28 May 2018 at 22:07, Richard Owlett wrote: > I had used rsync to back up a different partition with no problems. > > I used that command as a model to attempt to backup another partition. > >> root@debian-jan13:~# root@debian-jan13:~# rsync --verbose --progress >>

rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?

2018-05-28 Thread Richard Owlett
I had used rsync to back up a different partition with no problems. I used that command as a model to attempt to backup another partition. root@debian-jan13:~# root@debian-jan13:~# rsync --verbose --progress --stats --recursive --times --perms --links /media/root/drescued_commo/