HELP troubleshoot backing up user files to ext. medium
Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2017 3:13 pm
Today, June 10, was the first I tried backing up to my TOSHIBA EXT external 1 TB USB drive running only off USB power.
This was the first I tried since rewriting my MEPIS 12 partition w/ MX-16 about a week ago. I must have overlooked something. When I installed MX-16, I kept my user name and /home/user files intact. Everything on /home/user seemed readable and writeable up until now. I did change my user password manually after upgrading to MX-16.
My usual rsync backup script stopped working. Each and every rsync call in the backup script generates the 3-line error message
Here are the permissions for one user text file on the external drive.
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Here are the permissions for my backup script.
Note I am running this script as user. In the past, it ran fine as user. However, the terminal wouldn't let me unmount (using $umount) on this VFAT external medium. I had to su everytime I wanted to manually unmount the external drive after using it. ( I never had to do this with my other identical USB drive, which is formatted ext2.)
What did I neglect to do, or overlook, in assuming my old user scripts would keep working as always after switching from MEPIS 12 to MX-16 and keeping the /home/user intact ? What did I forget to do for the new OS ? Is it the username appended to the /media mount point? i.e. /media/jon/"TOSHIBA EXT" instead of /media/"TOSHIBA EXT"/ ?
BTW, less still works fine with these files, e.g.,
This was the first I tried since rewriting my MEPIS 12 partition w/ MX-16 about a week ago. I must have overlooked something. When I installed MX-16, I kept my user name and /home/user files intact. Everything on /home/user seemed readable and writeable up until now. I did change my user password manually after upgrading to MX-16.
My usual rsync backup script stopped working. Each and every rsync call in the backup script generates the 3-line error message
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sending incremental file list
rsync: mkdir "/media/TOSHIBA EXT" failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(674) [Receiver=3.1.1]
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$ lsf /media/jon/"TOSHIBA EXT"/URLs.txt
-rw------- 1 jon jon 259951 May 28 00:55 /media/jon/TOSHIBA EXT/URLsHere are the permissions for my backup script.
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jon@mx1:~$ lsf USBackup_v
-rwxr--r-- 1 jon users 9075 Mar 16 14:12 USBackup_v*What did I neglect to do, or overlook, in assuming my old user scripts would keep working as always after switching from MEPIS 12 to MX-16 and keeping the /home/user intact ? What did I forget to do for the new OS ? Is it the username appended to the /media mount point? i.e. /media/jon/"TOSHIBA EXT" instead of /media/"TOSHIBA EXT"/ ?
BTW, less still works fine with these files, e.g.,
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$less /media/jon/"TOSHIBA EXT"/URLs.txt