Operation not permitted in rsync

[Wayne Davison]

On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 09:05:10PM -0500, ying lcs wrote:
> Can you please tell me what is the meaning of the following error message?
> 
> rsync: chgrp 
> "/media/LINUXBACKUP/backup/sample/sample/mozilla1.5/mozilla/dom/src/data/.svn/text-base/20070227225544.tar.svn-base"
> failed: Operation not permitted (1)

That usually means that the user running the rsync doesn't own the
file on the receiving side, so rsync's attempt to change its group
information failed.

..wayne..