I am trying to sync data from my /home folder on a 20.3 system to /home
on a 21.1 system. I booted on a live flash drive.

rsync reports:

sent 325 bytes received 181 bytes 1,012.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 (DRY RUN)
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1207) [sender=3.1.3]

The script that I used was this:

#! /bin/sh
# Backup_rsync.sh backup drive sda5 to sdb5
#

mkdir /mnt/sda5
mkdir /mnt/sdb5

mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5
mount /dev/sdb5 /mnt/sdb5

rsync -anrv --exclude=".*" include-from="myincludes.txt" --chown=alan:alan --progress /mnt/sda5/alan/ /mnt/sdb5/alan/

myincludes.txt holds only those "dot" files that I want copied. i.e.

/mnt/sda5/alan/.sane

Can anyone tell why this isn't working?

TIA, Alan

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running on an AMD Phenom II X4 Black edition processor with 16GB of
DRAM.

On 3/18/23 08:07, this is what pinnerite wrote:
> I am trying to sync data from my /home folder on a 20.3 system to /home
> on a 21.1 system. I booted on a live flash drive.
>
> rsync reports:
>
> sent 325 bytes received 181 bytes 1,012.00 bytes/sec
> total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 (DRY RUN)
> rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1207) [sender=3.1.3]
>
> The script that I used was this:
>
> #! /bin/sh
> # Backup_rsync.sh backup drive sda5 to sdb5
> #
>
> mkdir /mnt/sda5
> mkdir /mnt/sdb5
>
> mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5
> mount /dev/sdb5 /mnt/sdb5
>
> rsync -anrv --exclude=".*" include-from="myincludes.txt" --chown=alan:alan --progress /mnt/sda5/alan/ /mnt/sdb5/alan/
>
> myincludes.txt holds only those "dot" files that I want copied. i.e.
>
> /mnt/sda5/alan/.sane
>
> Can anyone tell why this isn't working?
>
> TIA, Alan
>
>
>
>
Minor item, -a implies -r per man page.
And it seems contrary to exclude dot files but include dot files. What would happen if you dropped the --exclude?

--
Al

On 18/03/2023 12:07, pinnerite wrote:
> I am trying to sync data from my /home folder on a 20.3 system to /home
> on a 21.1 system. I booted on a live flash drive.
>
> rsync reports:
>
> sent 325 bytes received 181 bytes 1,012.00 bytes/sec
> total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 (DRY RUN)
> rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1207) [sender=3.1.3]
>
> The script that I used was this:
>
> #! /bin/sh
> # Backup_rsync.sh backup drive sda5 to sdb5
> #
>
> mkdir /mnt/sda5
> mkdir /mnt/sdb5
>
> mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5
> mount /dev/sdb5 /mnt/sdb5
>
> rsync -anrv --exclude=".*" include-from="myincludes.txt" --chown=alan:alan --progress /mnt/sda5/alan/ /mnt/sdb5/alan/
>
> myincludes.txt holds only those "dot" files that I want copied. i.e.
>
> /mnt/sda5/alan/.sane
>
> Can anyone tell why this isn't working?
>
> TIA, Alan
>
>
>
>

Try -anrvvv to see what's happening.
rsync include/exclude _is_ confusing until you understand it.
I found
<https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/307862/rsync-include-only-certain-files-types-excluding-some-directories>
helpful.

--
Chris Elvidge
England

On 18/03/2023 12:07, pinnerite wrote:
> I am trying to sync data from my /home folder on a 20.3 system to /home
> on a 21.1 system. I booted on a live flash drive.
>
> rsync reports:
>
> sent 325 bytes received 181 bytes 1,012.00 bytes/sec
> total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 (DRY RUN)
> rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1207) [sender=3.1.3]
>
> The script that I used was this:
>
> #! /bin/sh
> # Backup_rsync.sh backup drive sda5 to sdb5
> #
>
> mkdir /mnt/sda5
> mkdir /mnt/sdb5
>
> mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5
> mount /dev/sdb5 /mnt/sdb5

Make sure you have rwx access /mnt/sdb5/alan and have rx access to
/mnt/sda5/alan
Where exactly is myincludes.txt? Assume it's in /mnt/sda5/alan?

rsync -avr --include-from="/mnt/sda5/alan/includes.txt"
--include="/mnt/sda5/alan/" --exclude='*' --chown="alan:alan"
/mnt/sda5/alan /mnt/sdb5/alan

This says include-from the file contents, include the root directory of
the copy-from, exclude everything (else), change the user/group of the
destination files. Copy from /mnt/sda5/alan, to /mnt/sdb5/alan

>
> rsync -anrv --exclude=".*" include-from="myincludes.txt" --chown=alan:alan --progress /mnt/sda5/alan/ /mnt/sdb5/alan/
>
> myincludes.txt holds only those "dot" files that I want copied. i.e.
>
> /mnt/sda5/alan/.sane
>
> Can anyone tell why this isn't working?
>
> TIA, Alan
>
>
>
>

--
Chris Elvidge
England

On 18/03/2023 18:12, Chris Elvidge wrote:
> On 18/03/2023 12:07, pinnerite wrote:
>> I am trying to sync data from my /home folder on a 20.3 system to /home
>> on a 21.1 system. I booted on a live flash drive.
>>
>> rsync reports:
>>
>> sent 325 bytes received 181 bytes 1,012.00 bytes/sec
>> total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 (DRY RUN)
>> rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous
>> errors) (code 23) at main.c(1207) [sender=3.1.3]
>>
>> The script that I used was this:
>>
>> #! /bin/sh
>> # Backup_rsync.sh backup drive sda5 to sdb5
>> #
>>
>> mkdir /mnt/sda5
>> mkdir /mnt/sdb5
>>
>> mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5
>> mount /dev/sdb5 /mnt/sdb5
>
> Make sure you have rwx access /mnt/sdb5/alan and have rx access to
> /mnt/sda5/alan
> Where exactly is myincludes.txt? Assume it's in /mnt/sda5/alan?
>
> rsync -avr --include-from="/mnt/sda5/alan/includes.txt"
> --include="/mnt/sda5/alan/" --exclude='*' --chown="alan:alan"
> /mnt/sda5/alan /mnt/sdb5/alan
^
|
Sorry, that should be /mnt/sda5/alan/

>
> This says include-from the file contents, include the root directory of
> the copy-from, exclude everything (else), change the user/group of the
> destination files. Copy from /mnt/sda5/alan, to /mnt/sdb5/alan
>
>>
>> rsync -anrv --exclude=".*" include-from="myincludes.txt"
>> --chown=alan:alan --progress /mnt/sda5/alan/ /mnt/sdb5/alan/
>>
>> myincludes.txt holds only those "dot" files that I want copied. i.e.
>>
>> /mnt/sda5/alan/.sane
>>
>> Can anyone tell why this isn't working?
>>
>> TIA, Alan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>

--
Chris Elvidge
England

On Sat, 18 Mar 2023 09:43:52 -0400
Big Al <Bears@invalid.com> wrote:

> On 3/18/23 08:07, this is what pinnerite wrote:
> > I am trying to sync data from my /home folder on a 20.3 system to /home
> > on a 21.1 system. I booted on a live flash drive.
> >
> > rsync reports:
> >
> > sent 325 bytes received 181 bytes 1,012.00 bytes/sec
> > total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 (DRY RUN)
> > rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1207) [sender=3.1.3]
> >
> > The script that I used was this:
> >
> > #! /bin/sh
> > # Backup_rsync.sh backup drive sda5 to sdb5
> > #
> >
> > mkdir /mnt/sda5
> > mkdir /mnt/sdb5
> >
> > mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5
> > mount /dev/sdb5 /mnt/sdb5
> >
> > rsync -anrv --exclude=".*" include-from="myincludes.txt" --chown=alan:alan --progress /mnt/sda5/alan/ /mnt/sdb5/alan/
> >
> > myincludes.txt holds only those "dot" files that I want copied. i.e.
> >
> > /mnt/sda5/alan/.sane
> >
> > Can anyone tell why this isn't working?
> >
> > TIA, Alan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Minor item, -a implies -r per man page.
> And it seems contrary to exclude dot files but include dot files. What would happen if you dropped the --exclude?
>
> --
> Al

OK someone on the Ubuntu or Mageia group spotted my mistake, include-from should have been --include-from.
Now, the "." files. If I were to copy all of the "." files from an old to a new distro, I would probably screw up some newer settings created upon installation.

So the exclude says don't copy any and the file pointed to from myincludes.txt lists those that I do want copied over.
Yes I know that you can do it the other way round but all the examples I found during browsing the web did it the first way.

Thanks for trying though. It is really heart-warming to find like-minded people giving me some of their valuable time,

Regards, Alan

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Mint 21.1, kernel 5.15.0-67-generic, Cinnamon 5.6.7
running on an AMD Phenom II X4 Black edition processor with 16GB of DRAM.