Re: [Hampshire] Rsync question

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Author: Philip Stubbs
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Rsync question
2008/6/24 Tim <xendistar@???>:
> On Tuesday 24 June 2008 21:50:06 Andy Smith wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 09:44:17PM +0100, Tim wrote:
>> > mit@titan:~$
>> > rsync -av --exclude=/mnt/sdb1/zunk/ --delete --ignore-errors
>> > --log-file=/mnt/sdb1/rsync_log /mnt/sdb1/ /mnt/sdc1/backups/


> mit@titan:~$ cat /proc/mounts


> /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sdc1 ext3 ro,nosuid,nodev,data=ordered 0 0


I think the 'ro' in this line means Read Only. All the others had 'rw'
which I would expect means 'Read Write' As this is where the backups
are going, I am not surprised that it does not work. Why it is read
only is beyond me, I am afraid.

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Philip Stubbs