Results 1 to 4 of 4

Thread: rsync failed: Permission denied (13)

  1. #1
    Join Date
    Feb 2005
    Location
    Portland, Oregon, USA
    Beans
    43
    Distro
    Ubuntu

    rsync failed: Permission denied (13)

    Hello all:

    I have a Ubuntu box and just got a new hard drive. Rather than copy everything over from my old working Ubuntu install, I wanted to install Ubuntu from scratch and then rebuild the file contents.

    I have a large collection of music that I use on my mac (another computer) and like to keep sync'ed to the Ubuntu box. The following script used to work flawlessly:


    Code:
    rsync -avz --delete --exclude-from './music_exclude_list' '/Users/ryan/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/' 'ryan@192.168.1.200:/home/share/music'
    I run this from the mac and it syncs all my music files to the Ubuntu box at 192.168.1.200.

    With the new hard drive, I created a folder at /home/share/music and changed its user:group to ryan:ryan. I also made sure that its permission is set to 755. Keep in mind that /home/share/music is currently empty.

    Whenever I run the script, it skips the creation of every music folder like so:


    Code:
    rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/home/share/music/wiseguys" failed: Permission denied (13)
    *** Skipping any contents from this failed directory ***
    It repeats this message for every folder.

    At the end, rsync gives me this message:

    Code:
    sent 1612285 bytes  received 13858 bytes  130091.44 bytes/sec
    total size is 218579540279  speedup is 134415.94
    rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-40/rsync/main.c(992) [sender=2.6.9]
    Any ideas?

    Thank you,

    Ryan

  2. #2
    Join Date
    Feb 2005
    Location
    Portland, Oregon, USA
    Beans
    43
    Distro
    Ubuntu

    Re: rsync failed: Permission denied (13)

    Fixed my own issue...

    It was that I didn't own the destination folder, root did. So I used the chown command on the destination folder to make myself own it, not root, and problem solved.

  3. #3
    Join Date
    Mar 2009
    Location
    Belgium - Ghent
    Beans
    94
    Distro
    Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

    Re: rsync failed: Permission denied (13)

    A bit late: but this is probably because you need root at the other side of the ssh pipe.
    Try this:
    Code:
    rsync -a -e "ssh" --rsync-path="sudo rsync" /source/path /destination/path

  4. #4
    Join Date
    Dec 2010
    Beans
    Hidden!

    Re: rsync failed: Permission denied (13)

    Quote Originally Posted by ryharv View Post
    Fixed my own issue...

    It was that I didn't own the destination folder, root did. So I used the chown command on the destination folder to make myself own it, not root, and problem solved.
    Seems a solution was already forthcoming.

    Thread closed.


    404

Tags for this Thread

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •