That sort of snafu is why find(1) has the -depth directive. Does rsync have anything similar?
Kevin Korb via rsync <rsync@lists.samba.org> wrote: > There maybe a proper solution but an obvious workaround would be to run > rsync twice. The first time without the --fileflags option. > > --no-perms wouldn't help. That is only the standard unix permissions. > > On 10/30/21 8:04 PM, Fred Fugate via rsync wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have some subdirectories within a home directory that are chflagged > > schg, aka system immutable. > > > > When I rsync the home directory to another machine, I get lots of errors > > for these subdirectories and they fail to copy to the target. NOTE: The > > target is empty; rsync is copying to an empty remote machine, not trying > > to overwrite anything. > > > > I understand why this is happening; it's the schg flag. But is there a > > workaround using some combination of rsync options or multiple passes? > > > > Here is an example. > > > > The source directory is /Users/redacted. > > > > Within /Users/redacted is a subdirectory foo that has flag schg set: > > /Users/redacted/Documents/artwork/foo > > > > # ls -laO /Users/redacted/Documents/artwork > > total 80 > > drwxr-xr-x ?? 20 redacted ??staff ??- ?? ?? ?? ??680 Sep 21 21:06 . > > drwx------@ 609 redacted ??staff ??- ?? ?? ??20706 Oct 29 16:07 .. > > -rw-r--r--@ ?? 1 redacted ??staff ??- ?? ?? ??18436 Sep 21 20:55 somefile > > drwxrwxrwx@ ??18 redacted ??staff ??schg ?? ?? 612 Apr 12 ??2006 foo > > > > > > My rsync args are: > > > > --verbose --archive --one-file-system --acls --hard-links --xattrs > > --protect-args --delete-after --numeric-ids --itemize-changes --crtimes > > --fileflags --force-change > > --rsync-path=/opt/rsync323/bin/rsync > > > > My rsync version is 3.2.3 > > > > My execution and output looks like this, run as root: > > > > # /opt/rsync323/bin/rsync [ARGS ABOVE] /Users/redacted > > remotemachine.domain.com:/Users > > . > > . > > rsync: [receiver] mkstemp > > "/Users/redacted/Documents/artwork/foo/bar/.background.tiff.vYOAS2" > > failed: Operation not permitted (1) > > rsync: [receiver] mkstemp > > "/Users/redacted/Documents/artwork/foo/bar/.dc4.orange.CMYK.tiff.rYCmAP" > > failed: Operation not permitted (1) > > rsync: [receiver] mkstemp > > "/Users/redacted/Documents/artwork/foo/bar/.barcode.tiff.2E4mec" failed: > > Operation not permitted (1) > > . > > . > > > > In a nutshell: > > > > Subdirectory foo gets created on the receiver, but it gets created with > > the schg flag set. > > > > No further copying into foo can happen after that, because the schg flag > > prevents that. > > > > Subdirectory bar cannot be created under foo, and > > .background.tiff.vYOAS2 and other files cannot be created under bar, etc. > > > > How can I force the schg flags to be set on the receiver AFTER > > everything has been copied from the source? > > > > I really don't want to remove all of my schg settings on the source > > before rsyncing to the target. > > > > Would --no-perms allow this? But what would it break? -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
