an rsync question

[stan]

I just discovered a bug in something that I had thought had been working
for a long time. I have a nightly script which runs to back up a set of
files. These files consist of a peice of softwares "database". The software
is Amanda (a backup utlity).`, and it's not really a datav`bse as such, but
a set of flat files containg the configuration of this software, and some
information about what things have been backed up. 

In the tree that gets rsync'd to another machine are some symbolic links.
The script is rturning erros related to these symlinks. The errors look
like this:

rsync: failed to set times on "/data/amanda_backup/var/tape_only":
Operation not permitted (1)

Here is what the rsync command line looks like :

rsync -a * cvsup:/data/amanda_backup

I have read the man page on rsync, and I understood that this would copy
symlinks if they were in the tree being vopied. But it's not working for
me.

Any sugestions?

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