Hi a,

When using rsync, the destination and originating path needs to exist.

rsync -Prvvac /path/to/old/archive /path/to/new/archive

If the destination path doesn't exist, you will need to mkdir and mount accordingly.

However, your original question is how to change folder/file permissions.

This is how to change which user and group can access/edit a file.
sudo chown username:usergroup /path/to/file.txt

This is how to change which user and group can access/edit a folder and everything in that folder:
sudo chown -R username:usergroup /path/to/folder

This is how I would do it on my current system (to change user access to a folder):
sudo chown jr:jr /path/to/file

I know to use jr:jr because I did this:

ls -l .bash_history
-rw------- 1 jr jr 69881 May 24 13:34 .bash_history

To do this you will need to be in your user folder (or ls a file you know that you own).
pwd
/home/jr

I didn't cover chmod, so let us know if you still can't access the folder you're trying to access.

Regards,

Jared

On 5/27/19 9:25 AM, a wrote:

Hi

Can anyone explain, attachment .png of uuid info. error seems to be between /media/a/uuid and a "switch" occurs /media/uuid, what the hey/

a@alap:~$ rsync -av --delete --exclude=".*/" /home/a/ /media/your_uuid/backup
sending incremental file list
rsync: mkdir "/media/your_uuid/backup" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(675) [Receiver=3.1.2]
a@alap:~$ rsync -av --delete --exclude=".*/" /home/a/ /media/6fbdc743-fc0f-46e4-aea3-8160914c34ec/backup
sending incremental file list
rsync: mkdir "/media/6fbdc743-fc0f-46e4-aea3-8160914c34ec/backup" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(675) [Receiver=3.1.2]
a@alap:~$ cd /media/0435f0ab-9dfd-4d9d-ae8b-53101d419ac8
bash: cd: /media/0435f0ab-9dfd-4d9d-ae8b-53101d419ac8: No such file or directory
a@alap:~$ mkdir backup
a@alap:~$ cd /media/a/6fbdc743-fc0f-46e4-aea3-8160914c34ec
a@alap:/media/a/6fbdc743-fc0f-46e4-aea3-8160914c34ec$ mkdir backup
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘backup’: File exists
a@alap:/media/a/6fbdc743-fc0f-46e4-aea3-8160914c34ec$
a@alap:/media/a/6fbdc743-fc0f-46e4-aea3-8160914c34ec$ cd
a@alap:~$ rsync -av --delete --exclude=".*/" /home/a/ /media/6fbdc743-fc0f-46e4-aea3-8160914c34ec/backup
sending incremental file list
rsync: mkdir "/media/6fbdc743-fc0f-46e4-aea3-8160914c34ec/backup" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(675) [Receiver=3.1.2]
a@alap:~$
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