rsync backups on Mac OS X - mknod errors + icon disappears...

[Kevin Alexander Boyd]

Hi,

Please send all RsyncX questions to rsyncxdev at umich.edu.

Thanks!

Kevin Boyd
OS X Deployment Coordinator
Sys Adm UMIT Contract Services


On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Johan Glimming wrote:

> Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 18:45:03 +0100
> From: Johan Glimming <glimming at kth.se>
> To: rsync at lists.samba.org
> Subject: rsync backups on Mac OS X - mknod errors + icon disappears...
>
> Hi
>
> I am a rsync (on Mac OS X, RsyncX version with extended HFS+/-eahfs
> forks) beginner (I merely use it for backing up my desktop machine to a
> bootable
> external firewire volume, so that I can resume work in case of a
> harddrive disaster)
> and I got these messages:
>
> mknod
> "/Volumes/backup/Applications/Plone2/Sites/Default/var/zopectlsock"
> failed: Invalid argument
> mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/imap/socket/lmtp" failed: Invalid
> argument
> mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/run/syslog" failed: Invalid argument
> mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/bounce"
> failed: Invalid argument
> mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/bsmtp" failed:
> Invalid argument
> mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/cyrus" failed:
> Invalid argument
> mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/defer" failed:
> Invalid argument
> mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/error" failed:
> Invalid argument
> mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/ifmail"
> failed: Invalid argument
> mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/lmtp" failed:
> Invalid argument
> mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/local" failed:
> Invalid argument
> mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/maildrop"
> failed: Invalid argument
> mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/old-cyrus"
> failed: Invalid argument
> mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/proxymap"
> failed: Invalid argument
> mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/relay" failed:
> Invalid argument
> mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/rewrite"
> failed: Invalid argument
> mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/smtp" failed:
> Invalid argument
> mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/uucp" failed:
> Invalid argument
> mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/private/virtual"
> failed: Invalid argument
> mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/public/cleanup"
> failed: Invalid argument
> mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/public/flush" failed:
> Invalid argument
> mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/public/qmgr" failed:
> Invalid argument
> mknod "/Volumes/backup/private/var/spool/postfix/public/showq" failed:
> Invalid argument
> rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at
> main.c(639)
>
> from this little script that I hacked together:
>
> SOURCE=/
> TARGET=/Volumes/backup
> RSYNC=/usr/local/bin/rsync
> DIR=/opt/Common/rsync-scripts
> sudo bless -folder $TARGET/System/Library/CoreServices
> sudo $RSYNC $* -v --stats -r -R -l -a --delete -p --cvs-exclude
> --exclude-from=$DIR/exclude-list.rsync
> --include-from=$DIR/include-list.rsync --files-from=$DIR/master.rsync
> $SOURCE $TARGET --eahfs -b --update > $TARGET/backup.log
>
> The exclude-list file contains:
>
> # Exclude extra directory on $TARGET for deletion
> extra/*
>
> # Default excludes
> backup.log
> dev/*
> afs/*
> private/tmp/*
> Network/*
> Volumes/*
> automount/*
> private/var/run/*
>
> and  the oter two files include-list and master.rsync are similar
> (master.rsync merely containing /).
>
> Should I be worried? Or better, can somebody tell me how to avoid the
> above (fatal?) error during rsync
> while making exact copy of my Mac OS X volume.
>
> Finally, I like to have a nice icon for my external harddrive. The
> above script wipes the icon everytime I make
> a backup. Is this due to resource forks or just some icon file that I
> can exclude explicitly?
>
> Thanks,
> Johan
>
> PS. In case I don't follow the thread on the list, please carbon copy
> to my personal mailbox. Cheers.
>
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