cannot rsync when source directory lacks write permission

[Greg Deback (rsync)]

Hi,

No I think this bug is not related. However, I am wondering : if the
directory is write-protected, even for root, that means it never changes
right ? or is it that there is no file creation, only updates ? In either
case, the better would be to treat this particular directory separately.
Suppose this directory is called "secure", you would create a "secure"
folder on the destination, with a chmod +w, then do :
rsync $SRC $DST -x secure\*
rsync $SRC/secure $DST/secure/

Greg

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 7:57 AM, András Porjesz
<andras.porjesz at ericsson.com>wrote:

> Hi,
> Probably it is related to this bug:
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8844
> Andras
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rsync-bounces at lists.samba.org [mailto:rsync-bounces at lists.samba.org]
> On Behalf Of Steven Levine
> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 20:15
> To: rsync at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: cannot rsync when source directory lacks write permission
>
> In <juuivm$ai5$1 at dough.gmane.org>, on 07/27/12
>    at 01:26 PM, "Brian J. Murrell" <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> said:
>
> Hi,
>
> >I seem to be running into a problem where I am trying to rsync from a
> >source directory that lacks write permissions (i.e. r-xr-xr-x).
> >Presumably this is because rsync creates the directory on the
> >destination, then sets the permissions to match the source and then
> >tries to sync the contents of the directory, which it cannot of course
> >lacking write permission in the directory.
>
> Rsync contains code to handle this.  What version of rsync are you running
> and what is the command line you are using and what is the exact error
> message you are getting?
>
> Regards,
>
> Steven
>
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