Next question: what is the client machine's OS?
When I backup or when I restore?
Would you mind trying it with rsync 2.6.2?
I just tried again, this time restoring with Knoppix 3.4 (2004-05-17) and
rsync 2.6.2. I got the same errors:
Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root janus /usr/bin/rsync --server
--numeric-ids --perms --owner --group --devices --links --times
--block-size=2048 --relative --ignore-times --recursive --one-file-system .
/mnt/sda1/
Xfer PIDs are now 3201
Got remote protocol 28
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Remote[1]: symlink "/mnt/sda1/bin/csh" -> "/etc/alternatives/csh" failed: No
such file or directory
Remote[1]: symlink "/mnt/sda1/bin/kernelversion" -> "../sbin/kernelversion"
failed: No such file or directory
Remote[1]: symlink "/mnt/sda1/bin/mt" -> "/etc/alternatives/mt" failed: No
such file or directory
Remote[1]: symlink "/mnt/sda1/bin/pidof" -> "../sbin/killall5" failed: No
such file or directory
Remote[1]: symlink "/mnt/sda1/bin/rbash" -> "bash" failed: No such file or
directory
Remote[1]: symlink "/mnt/sda1/bin/sh" -> "bash" failed: No such file or
directory
Remote[1]: symlink "/mnt/sda1/boot/boot.b" -> "boot-menu.b" failed: No such
file or directory
Remote[1]: symlink "/mnt/sda1/dev/MAKEDEV" -> "/sbin/MAKEDEV" failed: No
such file or directory
Remote[1]: mknod "/mnt/sda1/dev/agpgart" failed: No such file or directory
Remote[1]: symlink "/mnt/sda1/sbin/ipfwadm" -> "/etc/alternatives/ipfwadm"
failed: No such file or directory
Remote[1]: symlink "/mnt/sda1/sbin/kallsyms" -> "insmod" failed: No such
file or directory
Remote[1]: symlink "/mnt/sda1/sbin/ksyms" -> "insmod" failed: No such file
or directory
Remote[1]: symlink "/mnt/sda1/sbin/lsmod" -> "insmod" failed: No such file
or directory
Remote[1]: symlink "/mnt/sda1/sbin/lspci" -> "../bin/lspci" failed: No such
file or directory
Remote[1]: symlink "/mnt/sda1/sbin/modprobe" -> "insmod" failed: No such
file or directory
Remote[1]: symlink "/mnt/sda1/sbin/poweroff" -> "halt" failed: No such file
or directory
Remote[1]: symlink "/mnt/sda1/sbin/reboot" -> "halt" failed: No such file or
directory
Remote[1]: symlink "/mnt/sda1/sbin/rmmod" -> "insmod" failed: No such file
or directory
Remote[1]: symlink "/mnt/sda1/sbin/rmt" -> "/usr/sbin/rmt" failed: No such
file or directory
Remote[1]: symlink "/mnt/sda1/sbin/swapoff" -> "swapon" failed: No such file
or directory
Remote[1]: symlink "/mnt/sda1/sbin/telinit" -> "init" failed: No such file
or directory
Done: 78603 files, 9163782540 bytes
-Chris
