Hi all. Yes, me again. Nothing bad and I have a petty functional system. Palemoon's config files have some parsing errors that stop FF from opening. I was first excited that FF40 opened to the restore window but then the parsing error and I checked the web for solutions. Nothing really helped. Although I'd like to get a FF version running it's not important at this time. My question is the backup, rsync, that Mark, you got set up for me. I check the discs, mounted or not, edit the script that you wrote so that the discs names match and start the backup. All runs well except that I get many errors of "read-only" like this-"rsync: chown "/mnt/mybackups/backup-home-ubuntu/dvdrip-data" failed: Read-only file system (30)". Is this a concern? Seems like there are some important files that aren't getting backed up (this example is not critical). Should I worry? Should I try a different command? Currently: $dmesg | grep sd ..... [38595.548289] EXT4-fs (sdc1): initial error at time 1521418471: ext4_mb_generate_buddy:758 [38595.548298] EXT4-fs (sdc1): last error at time 1521648999: ext4_do_update_inode:4694 $ blkid -o list device fs_type label mount point UUID ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /dev/sda1 ext4 / ea9f5446-2b36-4ba1-bcf6-ac786107fd58 /dev/sda5 swap [SWAP] 48168ed7-7baf-4d0c-bd12-2c17c9283680 /dev/sdc1 (not mounted) /dev/sdc5 (not mounted) $ nano ./backup-home.sh #! /bin/sh #set -e REMOTE_TOP_DIR=/mnt/mybackups sudo mkdir -p $REMOTE_TOP_DIR sudo mount /dev/sdc1 $REMOTE_TOP_DIR echo "sudo rsync -av /home/ubuntu/ $REMOTE_TOP_DIR/backup-home-ubuntu" sudo rsync -av /home/ubuntu/ $REMOTE_TOP_DIR/backup-home-ubuntu $ ./backup-home.sh mount: /dev/sde1 is already mounted or /mnt/mybackups busy /dev/sde1 is already mounted on / /dev/sde1 is already mounted on /mnt/mybackups sudo rsync -av /home/ubuntu/ /mnt/mybackups/backup-home-ubuntu stalls here or thereabouts if I've quit and started rsync again with the error msg. after I kill the process...... rsync: mkstemp "/mnt/mybackups/backup-home-ubuntu/.mozilla.bakup/pale moon/firefox/psy468mv.default-1422392796863/ScrapBook/data/20070106182433/.main_p_thumb2_586.jpg.aRdi6k" failed: Read-only file system (30) rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at io.c(504) [generator=3.1.1] I know that when I completed the first backup that Mark had begun, it finished with errors but now it's hanging. Any ideas? Many thanks, Brian