#1 2025-09-13 11:39:26

MarkW

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Registered: 2024-11-03

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Backing Up to Google Drive Using Rclone and an Rsync Client

Has anyone tried this?  If so how did you get it to work?

I'm trying to do it with Luckybackup

MarkW

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Registered: 2024-11-03

Posts: 296

Re: Backing Up to Google Drive Using Rclone and an Rsync Client

<a name="error1"></a><font color=red>rsync: [generator] symlink "/home/mark/gdrive/Mark-Bunsenlabs/mark/.CRITICISMS_AND_DISCUSSIONS_THE_MYTHOLOGI.pdf" -> "/home/mark/Documents/CRITICISMS_AND_DISCUSSIONS_THE_MYTHOLOGI.pdf" failed: Input/output error (5)
</font>

<a name="error2"></a><font color=red>rsync: [generator] symlink "/home/mark/gdrive/Mark-Bunsenlabs/mark/.fonts" -> ".local/share/fonts" failed: Input/output error (5)
rsync: [generator] symlink "/home/mark/gdrive/Mark-Bunsenlabs/mark/.icons" -> ".local/share/icons" failed: Input/output error (5)
rsync: [generator] symlink "/home/mark/gdrive/Mark-Bunsenlabs/mark/.themes" -> ".local/share/themes" failed: Input/output error (5)
rsync: [generator] symlink "/home/mark/gdrive/Mark-Bunsenlabs/mark/Tape Op" -> "/home/mark/Documents/Tape Op" failed: Input/output error (5)
rsync: [generator] symlink "/home/mark/gdrive/Mark-Bunsenlabs/mark/discworld.iso" -> "/home/mark/Discworld/discworld.iso" failed: Input/output error (5)
</font>
<a name="error3"></a><font color=red>The process reported an error: "Crashed"</font>

I see it has something to do with symlinks but I have no idea what to do about it