[NTLUG:Discuss] rsync woes
Ralph Green
sirable at gmail.com
Thu Oct 11 13:40:42 CDT 2012
> Well, Preston, I used rsync -a <from> <to> and got back a ton of
> messages, most of which were
>
> rsync: chown "<filemane>" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
>
>
> This was from an operation run from su as root. It may be that all the files
Howdy,
I think you were trying to rsync to a flash drive that was formatted
as a FAT filesystem. The file gets copied, and then rsync tries to
set the file ownership and attributes. That would fail on a FAT
filesystem, because there is nowhere to store the ownership. Try
formatting the flash drive as ext2 for your backups and you won't have
this problem. I suggest ext2 because there probably is no need for a
journal on this kind of drive.
Good luck,
Ralph
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