an rsync question

[stan]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 06:39:15PM +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
> >
> > rsync: failed to set times on "/data/amanda_backup/var/tape_only":
> > Operation not permitted (1)
> 
> 
> > Any sugestions?
> 
> The above says that rsync was unable to perform a certain operation on  
> the backup volume.
> 
> What are the file systems on the original and backup volumes (ext3,  
> NTFS, fat32 etc.) ?
> 
> My guess is rsync is unable to copy a certain file attribute from the  
> original to the backup, since the backup volume does not support it.
> 
I got it working. You are close. It turns out that the UID's had been
changed on the target machine, and a chown -R had not changed teh correct
things on the symlinks, so they could not be modifed by the suer runing the
script.

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