[carpman]

Thanks for info, i am trying to do a test run on local server, i have booted into frenzy livecd and mounted installed partitions on /mnt/server and usb drive on /mnt/backup

I recreated all the correct dir and partitions for server and so these are mount fine.

/dev/da0s1d on /mnt/backup (ufs, local)
/dev/aacd0s1a on /mnt/server (ufs, local)
/dev/aacd0s1d on /mnt/server/tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/aacd0s1e on /mnt/server/usr (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/aacd0s1f on /mnt/server/usr/local/pgsql (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/aacd0s1g on /mnt/server/var (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/aacd0s1h on /mnt/server/var/db (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/aacd0s2d on /mnt/server/var/qmail (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/aacd0s2e on /mnt/server/hsphere (ufs, local, soft-updates)

I am trying to do a local rysnc with following option but it fails.

rsync -avRrnH --numeric-ids /mnt/server/* /mnt/backup/cp

/mnt/server/usr/compat/linux/usr/lib/locale/ar_AE.utf8/LC_NUMERIC => mnt/server/usr/compat/linux/usr/lib/locale/ar_YE.utf8/LC_NUMERIC
/mnt/server/usr/compat/linux/usr/lib/locale/ar_YE.utf8/LC_TELEPHONE
rsync: stat "/mnt/backup/cp/mnt/server/usr/compat/linux/usr/lib/locale/ar_SD.utf8/LC_TIME" failed: No such file or directory (2)
/mnt/server/usr/compat/linux/usr/lib/locale/ar_YE.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/
rsync: stat "/mnt/backup/cp/mnt/server/usr/compat/linux/usr/lib/locale/ar_SD.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/SYS_LC_MESSAGES" failed: No such file or directory (2)
/mnt/server/usr/compat/linux/usr/lib/locale/ar_YE/
/mnt/server/usr/compat/linux/usr/lib/locale/ar_YE/LC_ADDRESS
rsync: stat "/mnt/backup/cp/mnt/server/usr/compat/linux/usr/lib/locale/ar_SD/LC_COLLATE" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (26849 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(635) [sender=3.0.2]

I included the -R options as read this should create the dir?

any ideas where going wrong?

cheers