Re: [Hampshire] Rsync question

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Author: Hugo Mills
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On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:13:20PM +0100, Philip Stubbs wrote:
> 2008/6/24 Tim <xendistar@???>:
> > On Tuesday 24 June 2008 21:50:06 Andy Smith wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 09:44:17PM +0100, Tim wrote:
> >> > mit@titan:~$
> >> > rsync -av --exclude=/mnt/sdb1/zunk/ --delete --ignore-errors
> >> > --log-file=/mnt/sdb1/rsync_log /mnt/sdb1/ /mnt/sdc1/backups/
>
> > mit@titan:~$ cat /proc/mounts
>
> > /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sdc1 ext3 ro,nosuid,nodev,data=ordered 0 0
>
> I think the 'ro' in this line means Read Only. All the others had 'rw'
> which I would expect means 'Read Write'


Correct.

> As this is where the backups are going, I am not surprised that it
> does not work. Why it is read only is beyond me, I am afraid.


Well, either it's mounted with read-only options, or it encountered
an error at some point that meant the kernel remounted it readonly, or
the underlying hardware is read-only for some reason (e.g. lock switch
on a USB stick).

Hugo.

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