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rsync errors - alleycat - 2024-10-20
Trying to figure out how to backup jellyfin data. I'm getting an error I'm not sure what it means.
This is new, only tried the command a couple of times and decided something was not right.
Can someone please look at it and see what you think?
Commands:
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sudo systemctl stop jellyfin
cd /jellydata
rsync -a -p --progress /var/lib/jellyfin libJellyfin/
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RE: rsync errors - TheDreadPirate - 2024-10-21
Run it as root or use sudo. Your user doesn't have sufficient permissions to read everything. Also, if you are doing daily diffs, you need to add --delete to the end of the rsync command.
RE: rsync errors - alleycat - 2024-10-21
(2024-10-21, 12:03 AM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: Run it as root or use sudo. Your user doesn't have sufficient permissions to read everything. Also, if you are doing daily diffs, you need to add --delete to the end of the rsync command.
Like this?
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sudo systemctl stop jellyfin
cd /jellydata
mkdir etcJellyfin libJellyfin cacheJellyfin
sudo rsync -a -p --progress --delete /etc/jellyfin etcJellyfin/
sudo rsync -a -p --progress --delete /var/lib/jellyfin libJellyfin/
sudo rsync -a -p --progress --delete /var/cache/jellyfin cacheJellyfin/
tar cfz jellyfinBackup.tgz
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Tar not working either...
RE: rsync errors - TheDreadPirate - 2024-10-21
Try switching to root and run the command, which is how I do my backups. Having said that, I ran the rsync as my user with sudo and didn't have any issues.
You'd also need to use sudo for the tar since the -p option preserves the ownership and permissions of the original files when copying them.
Also, I'm assuming you own /jellydata, correct? I ran my rsync test in my home directory without issue.
RE: rsync errors - alleycat - 2024-10-21
(2024-10-21, 12:18 PM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: Try switching to root and run the command, which is how I do my backups. Having said that, I ran the rsync as my user with sudo and didn't have any issues.
You'd also need to use sudo for the tar since the -p option preserves the ownership and permissions of the original files when copying them.
Also, I'm assuming you own /jellydata, correct? I ran my rsync test in my home directory without issue.
Thanks for the reply. I'm trying to make this harder than It needs to be I guess. Just a copy is going to have to do for now. I need to focus on learning cli, ownership and permissions. A lot of us are still GUI guys and I'm using a headless machine for Jellyfin (which works great! btw)...