Backup user account with command line

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rsync -a -u --delete --stats /Users/me /Volumes/FW_Backup/me/
but I get about 500 meg less data at the destination as I have at the source and I get a command line response saying that some files could not be copies for permissions reasons.
Would it fix things to run this command under Sudo or is there a better way to be sure I have a complete clone of my user account syncronized whenever the command is run (I am aware that there are multiple GUI resolutions to this but prefer to use the free native tools so I can roll it out to multiple Macs).

I did try that but if I recall properly you wind up with other permissions problems - in the case of root not having permissions to the user. So I simply excluded the troublesome paths:
code
rsync -a -u --exclude Library/Caches/ --exclude Library/Preferences/ --delete --stats /Users/Richard /Volumes/rich_backup/
And that has worked, but now I have a new problem: if the network share is not mounted, rsync will simply create the directory /volumes/rich_backup on the hard disk and rsync to it! This is a obviously a problem should I or other users forget to mount the network share intended for backup. So I need to figure out how to get the command to error out if the network share is not present. I tried to begin the script with
code
ls /volumes/rich_backup &&
in order to get it to error out if the share was not present and it worked on my Tiger system, but on a customer's Panther system the script does not error out! Can anyone help me with some code that will intentially break my backup script if the destination volume is nor present?
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