rsync stopped working

Bob Holtzman holtzm at cox.net
Wed Jan 20 08:11:58 UTC 2016


Running Debian 8.2, xfce 4.10, rsync 3.1.1-3. I just edited my backup script as follows:

#The first line deletes extraneous files. The second does not and is used for normal backups.

# rsync -vaHz --delete --exclude '/proc' --exclude '*.iso' --exclude '/sys' --exclude '/home/holtzm/Documents/*.iso' --exclude '/media'
 /. /media/cf0a98ed-3c11-4107-b61e-f5139d024396/Jessie-laptop

# rsync -vaHz --exclude '/proc' --exclude '/sys' --exclude '*.iso' --exclude '/home/holtzm/Documents/*.iso' --exclude '/media'
 /. /media/cf0a98ed-3c11-4107-b61e-f5139d024396/Jessie-laptop


##############################################################################################################################################


 rsync -vaHz --delete --exclude '/holtzm/exclude' /. /media/cf0a98ed-3c11-4107-b61e-f5139d024396/Jessie-laptop

# rsync -vaHz --exclude '/holtzm/exclude' /. /media/cf0a98ed-3c11-4107-b61e-f5139d024396/Jessie-laptop


The lines above the hash marks are the original script which worked flawlessly.

Also, I just changed to an exclude file ($HOME/exclude) as follows:

'/dev'
'/lost+found'
'/proc'
'/media'
'/tmp'
'/*./*iso'

My problem is that when I run the script I get this error message:

root at localhost:/home/holtzm# scripts/backup
scripts/backup: line 4: /.: Is a directory
scripts/backup: line 7: /.: Is a directory
sending incremental file list
rsync: mkdir "/media/cf0a98ed-3c11-4107-b61e-f5139d024396/Jessie-laptop" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(674) [Receiver=3.1.1]

Tried running searches w/ no luck. Checked all the docs I could find w/ no luck.

Obviously, I screwed something up with the changes.

Any pointers appreciated.



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