Author: Stuart Sears Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] rsync usage
john lewis wrote: > I have genealogy data on my server (landing) which I want to duplicate
> on my local system (and eventually to a remote system)
>
> I used rsync with following command as the local user:
>
> rsync -avz landing:/var/lib/geneweb/ /var/lib/geneweb
>
> I get the following messages:
>
> receiving file list ... done
> rsync: failed to set times on "/var/lib/geneweb/.": Operation not
> permitted (1)
> ./
> rsync: failed to set times on "/var/lib/geneweb/.": Operation not
> permitted (1)
>
> sent 32 bytes received 6324 bytes 12712.00 bytes/sec
> total size is 35886561 speedup is 5646.09
> rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at
> main.c(1385) [generator=2.6.9]
>
> This is the first attempt at syncing the directories on landing and
> local boxes.
>
> should I have run rsync as root or have I missed some part of the
> incantation.
does your local user have write access to /var/lib/geneweb?
