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Hourly I have an rsync job backup /home to /home/backup. I have 24 directories (one for each hour): home.0 ... home.23 Here is the script I am running via cron: #! /usr/local/bin/bash dest=`date +%k | sed 's/ //g'` linkdir=`date -v-1H +%k | sed 's/ //g'` chflags -R noschg /home/backup rm -rf /home/backup/home.$dest rsync -ahHP --numeric-ids --delete --stats --link-dest=../ home."$linkdir"\ --exclude=/backup/* /home/ /home/backup/home."$dest"/ > /var/ rsync.log sleep 2 chflags -...

...bytes received so far) [sender] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(600) [sender=3.0.0pre7] Can someone explain what an internal abbrev error is? The rsync is to an attached firewire disk using: rsync --acls --xattrs --fake-super -a -v -exclude EXCLUDE --link-dest=LINKDIR SRCDIR DESTDIR Thanks in advance. -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed

Well, the title says it all.. I tried to research on this subject, but didn't find anything conclusive to me. Can somebody explain that error? If the file on destination isnt there, why not just copy it from source, why an error? I did a backup with rsync -aH --linkdest="/path/to/linkdir" /path/to/original /path/to/backup... basically rsyncing into an empty hierarchy. No errors here. Now, the errors come when i try to recover, after replacing the original harddrive with an older disk backup. The command is rsync -aH --delete /path/to/backup/ /path/to/original/ this is when i...