OS X and rsync: unpack_smb_acl errors and --numeric-ids

[Kyle Crawford]

I think I should submit a bug report.

Given that this was fixed before as a bug, it sounds like numeric should be handling this but it is not on OS X.

Kyle

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> On May 30, 2014, at 8:58 PM, Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net> wrote:
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> I just took a look at the patches again and I bet the first one (the
> less elegant one) would work for you.  You would have to try it on
> 3.0.7 though since 3.0.8 includes the other patch.
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>> On 05/30/2014 08:15 PM, Kyle Crawford wrote:
>> It does sound like the same issue, however I definitely still see
>> the issue on 3.0.9 and 3.1.1pre1 on OS X.
>> 
>> Kyle
>> 
>> Sent from Mobile
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>>> On May 30, 2014, at 8:04 PM, Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net>
>>> wrote:
>> Have you tried on the current version?  A similar problem was
>> handled a while ago:
>> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8020
>> 
>> On 05/30/2014 07:59 PM, Kyle Crawford wrote:
>>>>> First of all.  Thank you rsync developers and maintainers for
>>>>> all of your work.  It is awesome.  I love rsync.  I can't
>>>>> thank you enough.
>>>>> 
>>>>> So this has been brought up before: 
>>>>> https://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2010-April/024941.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> We are getting this error:
>>>>> 
>>>>> stderr: rsync: unpack_smb_acl: sys_acl_get_info(): Undefined
>>>>> error: 0 (0)
>>>>> 
>>>>> due to ACL entries that can not be resolved by name at the
>>>>> time when rsync attempted to resolve them.
>>>>> 
>>>>> This results in an exit status of 23.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The reason the ACL entry can not be resolved by name could be
>>>>> that a network directory service like LDAP or Active
>>>>> Directory is having issues. Or it could be that the user or
>>>>> group no longer exists (locally or in a network directory
>>>>> service).
>>>>> 
>>>>> On OS X, when this happens, the UUID of the group is
>>>>> displayed instead of the user or group in an ls -le for
>>>>> example:
>>>>> 
>>>>> host:~$ ls -le 
>>>>> /Volumes/Src/81-access-control-lists-missing-user-and-group/acl-test-2
>> 
> - -rw-r--r--+ 1 root  wheel  0 May 30 13:01
>>>>> /Volumes/Src/81-access-control-lists-missing-user-and-group/acl-test-2
>> 
> 0: 4D429A34-54A4-48F2-A9AB-9D1E7D1E6738 allow read
>>>>> 1: 1E0D050D-973C-47C4-8ACE-D900B04B986D allow read
>>>>> 
>>>>> Or you can see the UUID using ls -len  (numeric).
>>>>> 
>>>>> So when I am transferring from OS X to OS X, I'd like these
>>>>> UUIDs to just get transferred as UUIDs the same way that
>>>>> --numeric-ids works.
>>>>> 
>>>>> That way I can get a nice exit status of 0 and have
>>>>> confidence in my backups.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Mr. Bombich has worked around this issue and even posted a
>>>>> patch back in 2011.
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://help.bombich.com/discussions/questions/2248-warning-messages-from-rsync-307
> However, the patch has not been updated (that I know of).
>>>>> 
>>>>> And while I was able to apply the patch to rsync 3.0.6 and
>>>>> maybe 3.0.7, those versions are quite old and I'm noticing
>>>>> that creation times preservation is not working for me on
>>>>> those even though I apply the crtimes patch.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I would like to see --numeric-ids handle this by transferring
>>>>> the UUID rather than attempting to resolve the user/group.  I
>>>>> don't know how this would work for other platforms/mixed
>>>>> platforms or if there is a way to detect the source and
>>>>> destination OS for enabling this.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thoughts?  Should I post this as a feature request?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Kyle
>> 
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