how to copy all files from ubuntu A to ubuntu B,preserving everything,permissions and simlinks.

marietto · 06-06-2020, 06:05 PM

Hello to everyone.

I would like to copy all files of this kind : *vmware* with the same permissions and simlinks whatever they are on the ubuntu distribution that I have installed on the PC A to a usb stick and from the usb stick to the ubuntu distribution that I have installed on the PC B. Can someone give me some help ? I tried to do something like this,but it didn't work :

Quote:

root@ziomario-I9:/media/ziomario/ACRONIS_MED/vmware/etc/rc2.d# rsync -avz /etc/rc2.d/*vmware* /media/ziomario/ACRONIS_MED/vmware/etc/rc2.d/

sending incremental file list

rsync: symlink "/media/ziomario/ACRONIS_MED/vmware/etc/rc2.d/.K08vmware-USBArbitrator.7003" -> "/etc/init.d/vmware-USBArbitrator" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: symlink "/media/ziomario/ACRONIS_MED/vmware/etc/rc2.d/.S01vmware.7003" -> "../init.d/vmware" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: symlink "/media/ziomario/ACRONIS_MED/vmware/etc/rc2.d/.S01vmware-workstation-server.7003" -> "../init.d/vmware-workstation-server" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: symlink "/media/ziomario/ACRONIS_MED/vmware/etc/rc2.d/.S50vmware-USBArbitrator.7003" -> "/etc/init.d/vmware-USBArbitrator" failed: Operation not permitted (1)

sent 276 bytes received 670 bytes 1,892.00 bytes/sec
total size is 115 speedup is 0.12
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1207) [sender=3.1.3]

thanks.

cordx · 06-06-2020, 06:53 PM

what are the directory and file permissions?

marietto · 06-07-2020, 05:47 AM

formatting the usb stick with ext4 fixed the problem.

JeremyBoden · 06-07-2020, 01:46 PM

On a related issue...
I use rsync (running as root) to transfer a directory of backup files in a ext4 file system to an external disk (ext3 file system).
This contains a couple of symlinks - which always fail to transfer.

Code:

rsync -avl --delete --progress --human-readable --stats --numeric-ids  /mnt/backup/     /media/NAS/backup/

Code:

rsync: failed to set times on "/media/NAS/backup/sbackup/all.1.new.gz": Stale file handle (116)
rsync: failed to set times on "/media/NAS/backup/sbackup/all.2.new.gz": Stale file handle (116)
...
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1207) [sender=3.1.3]