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Re: rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?

From Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?
Date 2018-05-28 15:30 +0200
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Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 05/28/2018 07:15 AM, David wrote:
>> On 28 May 2018 at 22:07, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
>> Which would explain why rsync says:
>> "rsync: change_dir "/media/root/drescued_commo" failed: No such file
>> or directory (2)"
>> 
>> Does that help?
>> 
>
>
> *DUH* <slaps head and drinks second cup of coffee>
>
> But that raises another question.
> Why does error message identify a protocol problem after having 
> correctly identified the problem as "No such file or directory".
>
> Wouldn't "Error 3 --  Errors selecting input/output files, dirs"
> be less misleading?

Depends on "what part" was throwing the error -- e.g. if it was ssh or
something telling rsync "no can do", then it'd be a different error.


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rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-28 14:10 +0200
  Re: rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why? likcoras <likcoras@riseup.net> - 2018-05-28 14:20 +0200
    Re: rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-28 14:40 +0200
  Re: rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why? David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2018-05-28 14:20 +0200
    Re: rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-28 14:50 +0200
      Re: rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why? David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2018-05-28 15:10 +0200
        Re: rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-28 15:40 +0200
        Re: rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2018-05-28 16:10 +0200
      Re: rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-05-28 15:30 +0200
  Seeing with comprehension - was [ rsync error -- "Protocol  incompatibility" Why?] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-28 18:00 +0200
    Re: Seeing with comprehension - was [ rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?] Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-05-28 18:00 +0200
      Re: Seeing with comprehension - was [ rsync error -- "Protocol  incompatibility" Why?] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-28 18:20 +0200
        Re: Seeing with comprehension - was [ rsync error -- "Protocol  incompatibility" Why?] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-28 18:30 +0200
    Re: Seeing with comprehension - was [ rsync error -- "Protocol  incompatibility" Why?] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-05-28 18:10 +0200
    Re: Seeing with comprehension - was [ rsync error -- "Protocol   incompatibility" Why?] Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-05-28 20:10 +0200
      Re: Seeing with comprehension - was [ rsync error -- "Protocol  incompatibility" Why?] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-28 21:10 +0200

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