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When I run either of these commands, I get the error rsync symlink failed: Operation not permitted (1):

sudo rsync -aAXv --delete --exclude=/dev/* --exclude=/proc/* --exclude=/sys/* --exclude=/tmp/* \ 
--exclude=/run/* --exclude=/mnt/* --exclude=/media/* --exclude="swapfile" --exclude="lost+found" \ 
--exclude=".cache" --exclude="Downloads" --exclude=".VirtualBoxVMs" --exclude=".ecryptfs" /source \ 
/destination

or

sudo rsync -rltzuv --delete --exclude=/dev/* --exclude=/proc/* --exclude=/sys/* --exclude=/tmp/* \ 
--exclude=/run/* --exclude=/mnt/* --exclude=/media/* --exclude="swapfile" --exclude="lost+found" \ 
--exclude=".cache" --exclude="Downloads" --exclude=".VirtualBoxVMs" --exclude=".ecryptfs" / \ 
/media/hanif/CEDF-4BFB/Backup

Neither of these work. They both show the same error:

rsync symlink failed: Operation not permitted (1)

console

Can anybody help me to get this backing up properly?

earthmeLon
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Muhammad Hanif Sheikh
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1 Answers1

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As you used the option -l or --links preserving symlinks, I suspect that you tried to copy symlinks to a FAT partition, which does not support symlinks, independently of rsync.

Pierre ALBARÈDE
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