Rsync operations not permitted
 

hello guys, just want to ask I have files on the server running SUSE 11 and i rsync to My WD Cloud via NFS.

but i notice some it shows some error like "This operation is not permitted"

I had used rsync -av parameters.

But when I used rsync -rltuv parameters it seems to work fine.

Why rsync -av parameter is used there are errors even though I set on WD My Cloud shared folder as the permissions as 777?

Thanks for any input.

Can you show exactly what errors you're talking about?

It would apparently be due to one of the "-p", "-g", or "-o" options, which are included by "-a" but are not in your "-rltuv" options that do work. If you are not running rsync as root, then it's probably due to "-o" trying to preserve an owner that is not you or "-g" trying to preserve a group to which you do not belong.

If the NFS mount does not include the "no_root_squash" option, then root permissions for rsync will not propagate to the server (you will get the "nfsnobody" ID).

hi rknichols, this is the /etc/exports contents.

"no_root_squash" option what does it do?

Thank you. :)

In the presence of "all_squash" it won't do anything. "Squashing" refers to the mapping of IDs from the client to the anonuid and anongid (here, 65534 and 1000) on the server. By default, the root UID gets squashed and non-root UIDs are preserved. The "no_root_squash" would prevent that and allow full root permissions to propagate to the server. But, "all_squash" squashes all UIDs/GIDs to 65534/1000, and rsync will not be able to preserve the UID or GID of the source.

Thanks rknichols...

When I use rsync for whatever reason it seems that rsync goes into loop copying..

It copies again the files from the start and it would just never end.

I press Ctrl+c to terminate rsync, now I'm using tar to copy the directory.

I'm copying from Netgear NAS to WD My Cloud.

I will update this post, if tar is okay.