Rsync stalls
by debianlearner from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5JBP5)
Rsync has been regularly used to backup files in the home directory on a Linux desktop to a FAT32 USB stick.
Recently rsync has stalled due to problems with Service Worker and Local Storage files being transferred from
the home directory to the stick.
These files were deleted and rsync then rerun.
Rsync then stalled and produced many error messages of the form :-
rsync: chgrp
<file> failed:
Operation not permitted (1)
where <file> represents a filename.
The rsync command is of the form :-
rsync -v -a --max-size=4GB --delete <home directory> .
<mount point> .
where <home directory> represents the home directory and <mount point> represents
the mount point.
I realise that FAT32 knows nothing about permissions, etc.,
but the above command has worked successfully on previous occasions.
Why are the above error messages appearing ?
Do they have anything to do with the Service Worker and Local Storage files which had been created on the
USB stick in the previous run of rsync ?
What is the best thing to do to get rsync working okay again ?
N.B. I don't want to change the rsync command in any way.
Would it be okay to delete all the files currently on the stick and then rerun rsync ?
Recently rsync has stalled due to problems with Service Worker and Local Storage files being transferred from
the home directory to the stick.
These files were deleted and rsync then rerun.
Rsync then stalled and produced many error messages of the form :-
rsync: chgrp
<file> failed:
Operation not permitted (1)
where <file> represents a filename.
The rsync command is of the form :-
rsync -v -a --max-size=4GB --delete <home directory> .
<mount point> .
where <home directory> represents the home directory and <mount point> represents
the mount point.
I realise that FAT32 knows nothing about permissions, etc.,
but the above command has worked successfully on previous occasions.
Why are the above error messages appearing ?
Do they have anything to do with the Service Worker and Local Storage files which had been created on the
USB stick in the previous run of rsync ?
What is the best thing to do to get rsync working okay again ?
N.B. I don't want to change the rsync command in any way.
Would it be okay to delete all the files currently on the stick and then rerun rsync ?