osx remote backup wrong permissions

[Mike Bombich]

On Oct 30, 2010, at 9:02 AM, Robert DuToit wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I'm trying a remote backup for the first time. It is between two laptops, I installed rsync 3.0.7 on both compiled
> 
> patch -p1 <patches/fileflags.diff
> 
> patch -p1 <patches/crtimes.diff
> 
> patch -p1 <patches/crtimes-64bit.diff
> 
> patch -p1 <patches/crtimes-hfs+.dif
> f
> patch -p1 <patches/hfs_compression.diff 
> 
> ./configure
> 
> make
> 
> this all works perfectly for local backups, clones etc. Everything gets copied as is to the volume.
> 
> I have tried without ssh keys, with keys, keys with and without passwords (via ssh-agent) and it all works except that it won't copy the correct permissions on System files
> 
> example run with locked system folder var/audit going to servername at 100.102.15.4 (not my real address here of course):
> 
> sudo /rsync -aNHAXx  --protect-args --fileflags --protect-decmpfs --force-change --stats --progress -vvv --rsync-path=/rsync  /private/var/audit  servername at 100.102.15.4:/Volumes/Extra/eee

What's this "servername" account?  You should be using root if you want to preserve root ownership.

Mike

> 
> Ignore ownership unchecked on dest.
> 
> The permissions are changed from read&write only on System to read&write on my user account on the receiver. I copied the whole System but the results were the same though some files had permission denied errors. The output on my test folder show nothing remarkable, no errors, etc.  Am I missing something here? 
> 
> Any thoughts appreciated or directions to look in. 
> 
> Thanks,  Rob
> 
> 
> 
> 
> delta-transmission enabled
> recv_files(1) starting
> recv_generator(audit,1)
> recv_generator(audit,2)
> send_files(2, /private/var/audit)
> audit/
> set modtime of audit to (1288417603) Sat Oct 30 01:46:43 2010
> recv_generator(audit/20100701144405.20100702030039,3)
> send_files(3, /private/var/audit/20100701144405.20100702030039)
> send_files mapped /private/var/audit/20100701144405.20100702030039 of size 21066
> calling match_sums /private/var/audit/20100701144405.20100702030039
> audit/20100701144405.20100702030039
>       21066 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00
> sending file_sum
> false_alarms=0 hash_hits=0 matches=0
>       21066 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#1, to-check=240/242)
> sender finished /private/var/audit/20100701144405.20100702030039
> recv_generator(audit/20100702030127.20100702052825,4)
> send_files(4, /private/var/audit/20100702030127.20100702052825)
> send_files mapped /private/var/audit/20100702030127.20100702052825 of size 15417
> calling match_sums /private/var/audit/20100702030127.20100702052825
> audit/20100702030127.20100702052825
>       15417 100%    7.35MB/s    0:00:00
> sending file_sum
> false_alarms=0 hash_hits=0 matches=0
>       15417 100%    7.35MB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#2, to-check=239/242)
> sender finished /private/var/audit/20100702030127.20100702052825
> recv_generator(audit/20100702111829.20100703030341,5)
> send_files(5, /private/var/audit/20100702111829.20100703030341)
> send_files mapped /private/var/audit/20100702111829.20100703030341 of size 64184
> calling match_sums /private/var/audit/20100702111829.20100703030341
> audit/20100702111829.20100703030341
> 
> 
> ######and later on down the page#######
> 
> generate_files phase=1
> recv_files(audit)
> recv_files(audit/20100701144405.20100702030039)
> got file_sum
> set modtime of audit/.20100701144405.20100702030039.U7yt17 to (1278039638) Thu Jul  1 23:00:38 2010
> renaming audit/.20100701144405.20100702030039.U7yt17 to audit/20100701144405.20100702030039
> recv_files(audit/20100702030127.20100702052825)
> got file_sum
> set modtime of audit/.20100702030127.20100702052825.hzHr5M to (1278048505) Fri Jul  2 01:28:25 2010
> renaming audit/.20100702030127.20100702052825.hzHr5M to audit/20100702030127.20100702052825
> recv_files(audit/20100702111829.20100703030341)
> got file_sum
> set modtime of audit/.20100702111829.20100703030341.sSoTwl to (1278126221) Fri Jul  2 23:03:41 2010
> renaming audit/.20100702111829.20100703030341.sSoTwl to audit/20100702111829.20100703030341
> recv_files(audit/20100703030442.20100703045821)
> got file_sum
> 
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