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

[Kevin Korb]

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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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