Concern: rsync failing to find some attributes in a file transfer?

Sat Jul 26 00:35:47 MDT 2014

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On 07/26/2014 01:52 AM, L. A. Walsh wrote:
> I have a regular script I run to make static "snapshots" of my
> home file system, with each being all the files that changed in the
> past 24 hours.

I am not clear about the nature of this script.  Please provide more
details.

> I just moved my home partition to a new harddisk w/more space.

Home Partition?  Are we in 1995?  Why would you have a partition
mounted anywhere other than /boot ?

> I ran the util and have gotten odd results each time I ran it.

What util?  What results?

> This one bothers me... as I'm not sure why the attrs would be
> missing.

Is it really that just extended attributes are missing?  You seemed to
be in a panic.

> How can the names be transfered but no content?  Is that possible?

I am uncertain what this question means.  Maybe I have interpreted the
rest of your email in the wrong context.  Maybe not.  I am not sure.
Please provide technical details.

> Ideas?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> Version info:
> 
>> rsync --version
> rsync  version 3.1.0  protocol version 31 Copyright (C) 1996-2013
> by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others. Web site:
> http://rsync.samba.org/ Capabilities: 64-bit files, 64-bit inums,
> 64-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints, socketpairs, hardlinks,
> symlinks, IPv6, batchfiles, inplace, append, ACLs, xattrs, iconv,
> symtimes, prealloc, no SLP
> 
>> uname -a
> Linux Ishtar 3.15.6-Isht-Van #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jul 19 12:31:28 PDT
> 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> File system info:
> 
>> xfs_info /home
> meta-data=/dev/mapper/Data-Home  isize=512    agcount=32, 
> agsize=12582896 blks =                       sectsz=4096  attr=2 
> data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=402652672,
> imaxpct=5 =                       sunit=16     swidth=16 blks 
> naming   =version 2              bsize=4096   ascii-ci=0 log
> =internal               bsize=4096   blocks=32768, version=2 =
> sectsz=4096  sunit=1 blks, lazy-count=1 realtime =none
> extsz=4096   blocks=0, rtextents=0 -------------------
> 
> Command (called from a script file in perl):
> 
> my $rcmd = [$Rsync]; push( @$rcmd, qw( --8-bit-output --acls
> --archive --hard-links --human-readable --no-inc-recursive
> --one-file-system --prune-empty-dirs --whole-file --xattrs ), 
> "--compare-dest=$base_lvh->fs_mp/.");
> 
> 
> 
> 
> output of the program:
> 
> Rsync with 9 excludes from config file... Missing abbreviated xattr
> value, trusted.SGI_ACL_DEFAULT, for 
> "/home.diff/Bliss/Documents/law/Pictures/Artists" Missing
> abbreviated xattr value, trusted.SGI_ACL_DEFAULT, for 
> "/home.diff/Bliss/Documents/law/Pictures/Avatars/Production" 
> Missing abbreviated xattr value, trusted.SGI_ACL_DEFAULT, for 
> "/home.diff/Bliss/Documents/law/Pictures/Scans/Dragonaut-The
> Resonance" Missing abbreviated xattr value,
> trusted.SGI_ACL_DEFAULT, for 
> "/home.diff/Bliss/Documents/law/Pictures/Scans/HighSchoolDxD" 
> Missing abbreviated xattr value, trusted.SGI_ACL_DEFAULT, for 
> "/home.diff/Bliss/Documents/law/Pictures/Scans/I can't do H" 
> Missing abbreviated xattr value, trusted.SGI_ACL_DEFAULT, for 
> "/home.diff/Bliss/Documents/law/Pictures/Scans/Konachan" Missing
> abbreviated xattr value, trusted.SGI_ACL_DEFAULT, for 
> "/home.diff/Bliss/Documents/law/Pictures/Scans/Maria-sama-ga-miteru"
>
> 
Missing abbreviated xattr value, trusted.SGI_ACL_DEFAULT, for
> "/home.diff/Bliss/Documents/law/Pictures/Scans/Miscellaneous" 
> Missing abbreviated xattr value, trusted.SGI_ACL_DEFAULT, for 
> "/home.diff/Bliss/Documents/law/Pictures/Scans/SwordArtOnline" 
> Missing abbreviated xattr value, trusted.SGI_ACL_DEFAULT, for 
> "/home.diff/Bliss/Documents/law/Pictures/Scans/To Love Ru" Missing
> abbreviated xattr value, trusted.SGI_ACL_DEFAULT, for 
> "/home.diff/Bliss/Documents/law/Pictures/Scans/kiddy grade" Missing
> abbreviated xattr value, trusted.SGI_ACL_DEFAULT, for 
> "/home.diff/Bliss/Documents/law/lastfm" Missing abbreviated xattr
> value, trusted.SGI_ACL_DEFAULT, for 
> "/home.diff/Bliss/Documents/law/reality" Missing abbreviated xattr
> value, trusted.SGI_ACL_DEFAULT, for 
> "/home.diff/Bliss/law.V2/bin/lib/P/blib" Missing abbreviated xattr
> value, trusted.SGI_ACL_DEFAULT, for 
> "/home.diff/Bliss/law.V2/bin/lib/mem" Missing abbreviated xattr
> value, trusted.SGI_ACL_DEFAULT, for 
> "/home.diff/Bliss/law.V2/bin/lib/orig" Missing abbreviated xattr
> value, trusted.SGI_ACL_DEFAULT, for 
> "/home.diff/Bliss/law.V2/bin/lib/test" Missing abbreviated xattr
> value, trusted.SGI_ACL_DEFAULT, for 
> "/home.diff/Bliss/law.V2/bin/oldmapdrives" Missing abbreviated
> xattr value, trusted.SGI_ACL_DEFAULT, for 
> "/home.diff/Bliss/law.V2/bin/reg" Missing abbreviated xattr value,
> trusted.SGI_ACL_DEFAULT, for "/home.diff/Bliss/law.V2/bin/tmp" 
> Missing abbreviated xattr value, trusted.SGI_ACL_DEFAULT, for 
> "/home.diff/Bliss/law.V2/bin/vbs" Missing abbreviated xattr value,
> trusted.SGI_ACL_DEFAULT, for "/home.diff/root/1223/etc/fonts" 
> Missing abbreviated xattr value, trusted.SGI_ACL_DEFAULT, for 
> "/home.diff/root/1223/etc/local" Missing abbreviated xattr value,
> trusted.SGI_ACL_DEFAULT, for 
> "/home.diff/root/1223/etc/samba/save0820/internals" Missing
> abbreviated xattr value, trusted.SGI_ACL_DEFAULT, for 
> "/home.diff/root/1223/selinux" Missing abbreviated xattr value,
> trusted.SGI_ACL_DEFAULT, for "/home.diff/splunk/bin" rsync took
> 135m, 26s
> 
> Why would or how would the files and attr-names get transfered but
> be missing?
> 
> 

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