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

[Kyle Crawford]

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

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> On May 30, 2014, at 8:04 PM, Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net> wrote:
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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
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> 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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