Rsync help needed

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 21 September 2006 18:11, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 17:57 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Thursday 21 September 2006 02:25, Bob Chiodini wrote:
> > > Looking at the man page for rsync the -o option which is implied by the
> > > -a option requires super-user access.  It does not say that -a requires
> > > super-user access, however.
>
> "-a" implies "-o -D", both of which require root access.
>
As I said, Rick, I use rsync with the same '-a' option here, as user, and 
never have any errors.

> > I run an almost identical rsync from this box, as user, but it is from my
> > own directories to my own directories on borg.  Just in case, though, I
> > ran the rsync from a root console and got the same timestamp errors.
> >
> > > Try using -rlptguvz.
> >
> > Tried that as well, but still getting the same timestamp errors.
>
> The "-t" option says "preserve timestamps" and if the two machines are
> out of time sync, you can certainly get errors of that nature.  If you
> don't need the timestamps, then omit the "t" from the command options
> and let the destination file have the ctime, mtime and atime set to the
> current date and time.  

Tried that, but still get the same messages.

> I'd also highly recommend you fire up ntpd and 
> get the machines you deal with synchronized.
>
The box is set to sync against borg, so it can't be that, either.

Anne
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