destination directory problems

[Robert Wideman]

Ok, I changed uid/gid in rsync.conf to root, did a
test backup and it worked perfectly.  I noticed (like
you stated) the ownership was made root.root but I did
a restore and the copy back to the windows box was
made back to the correct user (robert instead of root
or something else).  So it seems my problems have been
worked out now.
Thanks for your help.
Robert

--- Tony at ServaCorp.com wrote:

> 
> Looks like uid 1000 (whichever user that is)
> does NOT have permission to write to /backup (owned
> by root)
> 
> Not sure about Debian, but seems like most chmod
> likes a user:group syntax
> 
> If /backup is owned by root
> you probably want
> uid = root
> gid = root
> which can preserve the original owners (mostly
> irrelevant on Windows)
> 
> You would use a specific uid and gid if you wanted
> the backups owned by that
> user
> regardless of who owned the files they came from.
> 
> otherwise on the server, the running rsync only has
> the permissions of the
> uid (user id) and gid (group id) stated.
> 
> Rsysc is running on both the source and the
> destination,
> on both the local machine and the remote machine,
> using rsync for communications or via a remote shell
> 
> With user and group permissions on Unix (Linux
> included)
> it is relatively easy to set up permissions to that
> "everything"
> excludes some stuff that needs to be excluded.
> In contrast to Windows which likes to quit on first
> error after a partial
> transfer,
> unixy things (rsync included), like to keep going
> with what they can do.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> rsync-bounces+tony=servacorp.com at lists.samba.org
>
[mailto:rsync-bounces+tony=servacorp.com at lists.samba.org]On
> Behalf Of
> Robert Wideman
> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 9:51 PM
> To: Tony at ServaCorp.com; rsync at lists.samba.org
> Subject: RE: destination directory problems
> 
> 
> Ok, I get a new error.
> 
> $ rsync -avz /cygdrive/d/asm
> robert at 192.168.1.102::backup/
> Password:
> building file list ... done
> rsync: push_dir#1 "/" (in backup) failed: Permission
> denied (13)
> rsync error: errors selecting input/output files,
> dirs
> (code 3) at main.c(406)
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (4 bytes
> received so far) [sender]
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream
> (code
> 12) at
> /home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.3/io.c(359)
> 
> I have made the following changes before getting
> this.
> chmod 644 /backup
> chown root.root /backup
> chmod 644 /etc/rsyncpasswd
> chown root.root /etc/rsyncpasswd
> 
> /etc/rsyncpasswd has:
> robert:password
> 
> /etc/rsyncd.conf has:
> log file = /var/log/rsync.log
> [backup]
>         path            = /backup
>         comment         = Backup
>         list            = yes
>         read only       = no
>         auth users      = robert
>         secrets file    = /etc/rsyncpasswd
>         hosts allow     = 192.168.1.100
>         uid             = 1000
>         gid             = 1000
> 
> Any thoughts welcome.
> Thanks
> Robert
> 
> PS...are these error codes not documented?
> 
> --- Tony at ServaCorp.com wrote:
> 
> > I think what you are doing runs rsync on the
> remote
> > server as user robert
> > which has the home directory of /home/robert/
> >
> > Second case is trying to logon to rsync itself and
> > fails.
> > contents of /etc/rsyncpasswd  are what?
> > (or if it is world readable rsync doesn't like it)
> >
> > /etc/rsyncpasswd	needs to be rw by root ONLY
> > robert:password
> >
> > rsync -avz /cygdrive/d/asm
> > robert at 192.168.1.102::backup/
> >
> > should then put asm into /backup/asm
> >
> > Depending on who on the Debian system should have
> > access to or be able to
> > write
> > to the backups, you might want uid = and gid =
> lines
> > in /etc/rsyncd.conf
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:
> > rsync-bounces+tony=servacorp.com at lists.samba.org
> >
>
[mailto:rsync-bounces+tony=servacorp.com at lists.samba.org]On
> > Behalf Of
> > Robert Wideman
> > Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 5:32 PM
> > To: rsync at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: destination directory problems
> >
> >
> > I am having a problem getting my files backed up
> to
> > the location I want
> > to from a WinXP client going to a Debian rsync
> > server.
> > The following is sending asm/ to
> /home/robert/backup
> > folder.
> > rsync -avz /cygdrive/d/asm
> > robert at 192.168.1.102:backup/
> >
> > My understanding of the rsync man page is that
> this
> > is
> > supposed to send
> > asm/ to what the path that is defined in
> > rsyncd.conf,
> > mine is defined
> > as /backup.
> >
> > I have tried it another way with failed attempts
> and
> > I
> > get the following error:
> > rsync -avz /cygdrive/d/asm 192.168.1.102::backup/
> > Password:
> > @ERROR: auth failed on module backup
> > rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes
> > received so far) [sender]
> > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream
> > (code
> > 12) at
> > /home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.3/io.c(359)
> >
> > How do I make the asm/ folder go to
> 192.168.1.102's
> > /backup and
> > not /home/robert/backup?
> >
> > Here is my configurataion:
> > rsyncd.conf:
> > log file = /var/log/rsync.log
> > [backup]
> >         path            = /backup
> >         comment         = Backup
> >         list            = yes
> >         read only       = no
> >         auth users      = robert
> >         secrets file    = /etc/rsyncpasswd
> >         hosts allow     = 192.168.1.100
> >
> > rsync versions:
> > WinXP SP2: 2.6.3 (cygwin environment)
> > Debian 3.1: 2.6.5
> >
> > Thanks
> > Robert
> >
> >
> >
> >
> ____________________________________________________
> 
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