rsync failing on TUMBLEWEED on USB attached drive.

[FlameBait]

I've had a situation for a few weeks when trying to back up my home directory on TUMBLEWEED.
This in entirely new behaviour of rsync. I've been using this method for years to back up my home directory to a USB attached drive.
It starts out normally then just stops. It's claiming no space left on device when I finally hit CTRL-C because it's obviously stopped. It has 575.4 GB free of 931.3 GB.

The command I've always used is

 rsync -av /home/flamebait /run/media/flamebait/BACKUP/flamebait/ 

This is the error I see when I do a CTRL-C

flamebait/.cache/google-chrome/Default/Cache/f_0b629a
^Crsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at rsync.c(636) [sender=3.1.2]
rsync: mkstemp "/run/media/flamebait/BACKUP/flamebait/flamebait/.15:46.png.u2GFyd" failed: Invalid argument (22)
rsync: mkstemp "/run/media/flamebait/BACKUP/flamebait/flamebait/.3:.jpg.12goj0" failed: Invalid argument (22)
rsync: mkstemp "/run/media/flamebait/BACKUP/flamebait/flamebait/.WTF?.jpg.uA71fA" failed: Invalid argument (22)
rsync: mkstemp "/run/media/flamebait/BACKUP/flamebait/flamebait/.flash.asp?id=84712.vzlotn" failed: Invalid argument (22)
rsync: rename "/run/media/flamebait/BACKUP/flamebait/flamebait/.cache/google-chrome/Default/Cache/.f_0988e9.6pWqiL" -> "flamebait/.cache/google-chrome/Default/Cache/f_0988e9": No space left on device (28)

How do I overcome this situation? This always used to work for backing up home. This is obviously new behaviour for me. I haven't been able to back op my /home for weeks and I'm getting nervous about no recent backups.

[hcvv]

I It has 575.4 GB free of 931.3 GB.

We of course want to see the statement and it's output that gave you that information (df -h or otherwise?)

[FlameBait]

We of course want to see the statement and it's output that gave you that information (df -h or otherwise?)

I'm not clear of what you mean? I've pasted the output I see.
The rest were just a bunch of messages about being out of space.
It's not giving me a lot of information. It just stopped behaving as it normally has for years.

[kerijan2003]

We want to see the command that gave you the result of: "It has 575.4 GB free of 931.3 GB."

[nrickert]

After you see that error message:

1. Is the external drive still mounted?
2. Can you write to the external drive (say, using "touch" to create a tiny file?

There's a possibility of a drive error causing the drive to be remounted as read-only, or even to have it seen on a different device name. You need to eliminate such possibilities before deciding that it is "rsync" rather than hardware. (The newer kernel might be fussier about the hardware).

[FlameBait]

This is what I am doing.
I plug the drive in and mount it with the device notifier in KDE Plasma
I open the drive using Dolphin.
I open a terminal in Dolphin from the tools drop down
I put my rsync command in on that terminal window.

I don't know how to get the drive size and free space from the command line I don't use the command line much. The information I have about the drive come from the properties you can get from right clicking on the folder.
His is a picture. of the information I took with spectacle. I cropped it so It's just that popup.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2...GQ0bGxMT05xTkU

[FlameBait]

After you see that error message:

1. Is the external drive still mounted?
2. Can you write to the external drive (say, using "touch" to create a tiny file?

There's a possibility of a drive error causing the drive to be remounted as read-only, or even to have it seen on a different device name. You need to eliminate such possibilities before deciding that it is "rsync" rather than hardware. (The newer kernel might be fussier about the hardware).

It writes to the drive then just stop after a period of time without completing the rsync process.
Yes I can copy a file to and from the USB drive.
It's as if some process that's not part of rsync is stopping the rsync transfer and the error I'm am getting may be entirely wrong because that process that stops the transfer interferes with the rsync process.

[hcvv]

The information I have about the drive come from the properties you can get from right clicking on the folder.

Thank you. That is an explanation. We are very sceptical in believing information that just falls out of the blue. We always want to know why you say something. To say it bluntly, we do not believe people, we believe computers

BTW

df -h

will tel you those things not spoiled by any GUI interpretation.

[hcvv]

His is a picture. of the information I took with spectacle. I cropped it so It's just that popup.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2...GQ0bGxMT05xTkU

That does not display on my system. Possibly because it is some Google site and I block most scripts. Please do not expect that all people trust Google.

This might be a better place: http://paste.opensuse.org/

[FlameBait]

Thank you. That is an explanation. We are very sceptical in believing information that just falls out of the blue. We always want to know why you say something. To say it bluntly, we do not believe people, we believe computers

BTW

df -h

will tel you those things not spoiled by any GUI interpretation.

/dev/sdb1 is the USB Drive

flamebait@flamebait:/run/media/flamebait/BACKUP> df -h
Filesystem               Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs                 5.9G     0  5.9G   0% /dev
tmpfs                    5.9G   29M  5.9G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                    5.9G  2.5M  5.9G   1% /run
tmpfs                    5.9G     0  5.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda2                 20G  9.0G   10G  48% /
/dev/sda3                436G  163G  251G  40% /home
192.168.1.9:/nfs          50M  6.2M   44M  13% /nfs
192.168.1.9:/nfs/Movies  3.6T  2.5T  1.2T  70% /nfs/Movies
tmpfs                    1.2G   28K  1.2G   1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sdb1                932G  356G  576G  39% /run/media/flamebait/BACKUP