Repeated directory creation bug

Wayne Davison wayned at samba.org
Wed Oct 27 00:33:31 GMT 2004


On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 05:07:50PM -0700, Scott Webster wrote:
> rsync: mkdir "/mnt/usbhd/Tuesday/home/swebster/fdtdtemp/temp/examples"
> failed: File exists (17)

What kind of an update is rsync trying to do when that message happens?
I finally got that message if there was a file already backed up with
the same name as a directory that is now being deleted.  Is that the
scenario you're seeing?

..wayne..


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