rsync question

[Daniel.Li]

See below error. Check your backup permissions.

"Operation not permitted"

On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 22:02 -0700, Patton Echols wrote:
> I have an interesting issue with rsync
> 
> I have thumb drives I use to backup and transfer document related to 
> various subjects.  For example, for project "foo" I have a directory in 
> my home group named "foo" and one on a thumb drive named "foo"
> 
> To transfer from the thumb drive is accomplished with:
> $ rsync -av /media/disk/foo/ ~/foo
> 
> This works fine, no errors. 
> 
> Transfer the other direction is the reverse command:
> 
> patton at Mycroft:~$ rsync -av ~/foo/ /media/disk/foo
> 
> which returns in part the following:
> ". . .
> rsync: chgrp "/media/disk/foo/Membership" failed: Operation not 
> permitted (1)
> rsync: chgrp "/media/disk/foo/Officials" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
> rsync: chgrp "/media/disk/foo/strategic-plan" failed: Operation not 
> permitted (1)
> 
> sent 10092 bytes  received 1982 bytes  24148.00 bytes/sec
> total size is 82023362  speedup is 6793.39
> rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at 
> main.c(977) [sender=2.6.9]
> "
> 
> 
> That is an excerpt, the same error message reports for every file and 
> directory.  However,  a simple test shows that the transfer works 
> correctly in both directions.  Any thoughts on how this could  be fixed?
> 
> fwiw, this is rsync version 2.6.9 on Hardy.
> 
> Thanks,
> Patton
> 
-- 
Daniel Li