It looks like the rsync binary on the remote machine doesn't have ACL support compiled in. You'll need the acl support on all the servers you'll be using the acl flag.
___ Philip Lowman ...... Original Message ....... On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:53:44 +0100 "Ian Clancy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi List, >I'm currently backing up a number of samba servers onto a remote server >using a perl script called rsnapshot which utilises rsync. Over the last >few i've started using posix ACL's on my samba server and now I would >like to be able to back up these ACLS's. >All of my servers are have their filesystems (ext3) mounted with ACL >support and i am using the following version of rsync compiled with the >acl patch : > >rsync version 2.6.6 protocol version 29 >Copyright (C) 1996-2005 by Andrew Tridgell and others ><http://rsync.samba.org/> >Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, ACLs, symlinks, >batchfiles, > inplace, IPv6, 64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums > > >At the moment i can back up acls on the local system. For example the >following works fine : > >/usr/local/bin/rsync -artlDPpv --acls /var/log/gdm /tmp > >However, when i try to backup a remote system i recieve some errors: > >/usr/local/bin/rsync -AaPv --delete --numeric-ids --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh >--link-dest=/var/backups/trace/hourly.1/Data/ >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:"/var/shares/Traceability/Trace\ V114/data/" >/var/backups/trace/hourly.0/Data/ > >rsync: on remote machine: -vlAogDtpr: unknown option >rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1084) >rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver] >rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(434) > > >Finally, my question is, Do i need to install rsync with ACL's support >on all my samba servers ? >Is there anything else i am doing wrong ?. > >thanks, >Ian > > >-- >To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync >Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
