As you might have guessed, that error is coming from the filesystem and
is not rsync's fault; copying the file with cp should have similar
chances of incurring the error. The symbolic name for errno 6 is ENXIO,
and the Mac OS X read(2) man page documents two cases in which it
occurs:
I am involved with the development of LBackup http://www.lbackup.org
Recently there was a post to the lbackup-dicussion mailing list.
http://tinyurl.com/lbackup-discussion-device-not
Within the post they reported the following error:
rsync: read
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 13:32 +1200, Henri Shustak wrote:
rsync: read
/Volumes/Drobo_HD/lbackups/theserver.Homes/Section.0/Faculty/andrewmac/.DS_Store:
Device not configured (6)
I am curious to know if anyone else has seen this error on Mac OS X.
In addition, is any one able to shed some