Backup and renaming old file that became directory

[Yan Morin]

/mnt/backup/foo/home/bar  <-- file
/mnt/backup/foo/old/home/bar  <-- directory

rsync: keep_backup failed: "/mnt/backup/foo/home/bar" -> 
"/mnt/backup/foo/old/home/bar": Is a directory (21)
rsync: opendir "/mnt/backup/foo/home/bar" failed: Not a directory (20)
rsync: keep_backup failed: "/mnt/backup/foo/home/bar" -> 
"/mnt/backup/foo/old/home/bar": Is a directory (21)
rsync: keep_backup failed: "/mnt/backup/foo/home/bar" -> 
"/mnt/backup/foo/old/home/bar": Is a directory (21)
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(791)

In the original error, the file/directory, aka 'bar' was beginning by a 
dot, it was '.nedit'


Matt McCutchen wrote:

> I tried your scenario on rsync 2.6.8.  Rsync successfully overwrite
> the destination directory with the source file and didn't change the
> backup dir.  How exactly is rsync failing for you?  Error message?
>
> Matt
>


-- 
Yan Morin
yan.morin at savoirfairelinux.com
http://www.sflphone.org/
http://www.savoirfairelinux.com/