Windows 10: rsync server backup, but now created folder I can't delete / view!

Hi,

I'm trying to get a rsync scheduled task setup on my PC, that will do a rsync on my server and grab the files. So after a lot of hassle (getting the SSH key-pair working), I've finally got it going. My issue though, is that I was running this:

Code: rsync -vcr -e "ssh -l root -i /cygdrive/F/ServerBackups/foo" "mysite.com:/srv/www/xxxx" "/cygdrive/F/ServerBackups/Foo"[/quote] For some reason that has done some weird stuff with the permissions. After reading up a bit on it, I found I should have really used the --chmod=ugo=rwX flag as well, to set the permissions. This is what I'm using now:

Code: rsync -vcr --chmod=ugo=rwX -e "ssh -l root -i /cygdrive/F/ServerBackups/foo" "mysite.com:/srv/www/xxxx" "/cygdrive/F/ServerBackups/Foo2"[/quote] That works fine, and I can read Foo2, and all its contents. The proble now is getting rid of the "bad" one!

In Cygwin, here is this chmod's of that folder:

Here is the permissions of the folder that I'm having issues with:





It has read-only ticked, so I have tried to remove that:




but then I just get this nasty error:




The folder is only a couple of hundred Mb's, but I'd still like to try and get rid of it if I can, so I can do some housekeeping =)T

Thanks!

Andy

:)

 

Build 14251 will not install

And now I've found a problem which I am currently struggling to recover. I use rsync with cygnative (to supply the password). Was working fine before I tried to apply this update and now rsync says that cygnative doesn't exist when it is called through
-e, but it was OK beforehand and cygnative is still where it was and will run fine when called directly from the command line. So, something has gone badly wrong with the PATH or how the command interpreter is working.

This is not helped by the fact that I now have no restore points, presumably deleted in the run up to the install, and therefore can't go back to a known working position.

 

I created a folder and now can't delete it... how to?

Hi Tricia,

To assist you better with this concern, kindly answer the following questions:

• Where did you create this folder?
• Where is it located?
• Any error message when trying to delete it?
• Can you send us a screenshot of the issue you're experiencing?

Looking forward to your reply.

 

You are talking about stuff that is advanced user, not something for the faint of heart, since it can royally screw up the system you are wanting to back up. See The Non-Beginners Guide to Syncing Data with Rsync rsync.net Cloud Storage for Offsite Backups (Mentions about Server 2008, but will work with regular Windows) rsync + ssh + cygwin - full and TOTAL instructions - Windows 2008 R2 - YouTube More info rsync

Just know that you can hose up your Windows system and the device that you are using for the storage if you do this wrong. Use Macrium backup on your windows machine before you mess around with Rsync.

 

Thanks bro *Smile I actually have it all working (its backing up 6 of my sites now perfectly, and is set to run in the morning at 9am, after the server backups have finished. The only issue I have, is removing the "incorrect" one I did to start with. Maybe I'll just leave it, as its only a few hundred mb (on a 500gb SSD), so not wasting too much space. I was just hoping there was a simple fix *Smile

CheersAn
dy

 

I sent a message to Jimbo45 regarding this. He has been doing a lot of advanced stuff with Linux that I do not get into. With rsync there really is not a simple fix, because of how complex it is to make it work properly. We are talking old school tech, that rsync came out five years after Linus gave us Linux.

If I do stuff with a test server running any form of Linux, I use webmin to let me do stuff that way.

 

Cool. thanks! Yeah it's tricky using a wrapped like Cygwin to emulate a *nix backend so that it can run. It's worked really well for me so far (all my sites are backed up locally, and it's doing the morning backup now, and only downloading the changed files *Smile)

Cheers

Andy