rsync failed to set permission

[Bakken, Luke]

> I get many permissions denied failures when using rsync to 
> copy my home directory to a network drive. I can't detect 
> while rsync is complaining.
> 
> The only thing that I don't know is why the file 
> /cygdrive/c/home/sql/tmp/874677 have a '+' at the end of the 
> mod. What does this mean?
> 
> $ ls -ld /cygdrive/h/Privat/2cp/LAUFWERK_c/home/sql/tmp/874677
> drwxr-xr-x    1 F.Braunb Domänen-        0 24. Aug 11:19 
> /cygdrive/h/Privat/2cp/LAUFWERK_c/home/sql/tm
> p/874677
> $ ls -ld /cygdrive/c/home/sql/tmp/874677 
> drwxrwxrwx+   2 F.Braunb Domänen-        0 24. Aug 11:19 
> /cygdrive/c/home/sql/tmp/874677
> 
> rsync comes with the message
> failed to set permissions on 
> "/cygdrive/h/Privat/2cp/LAUFWERK_c/home/sql/tmp/874677": 
> Permission denied

Do you have 'ntsec' in your CYGWIN env variable? I've never gotten rsync to work correctly with that on. Try turning it off on your client and server (if you have one).

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