rsync - mkstemp failed: Permission denied (13)
I have the following setup to periodically rsync files from server A to server B. Server B has the rsync daemon running with the following configuration:
read only = false
use chroot = false
max connections = 4
syslog facility = local5
log file = /var/adm/rsyncd.log
munge symlinks = false
secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
numeric ids = false
transfer logging = true
log format = %h %o %f %l %b
[BACKUP]
path = /path/to/archive
auth users = someuser
From server A I am issuing the following command:
rsync -adzPvO --delete --password-file=/path/to/pwd/file/pwd.dat /dir/to/be/backedup/ [email protected]::BACKUP
BACKUP directory is fully read/write/execute to everyone. When I run the rsync command from server A, I see:
afile.txt
989 100% 2.60kB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#78, to-check=0/79)
for each and everyfile in the directory I wish to backup. It fails when I get to writing tmp files:
rsync: mkstemp "/.afile.txt.PZQvTe" (in BACKUP) failed: Permission denied (13)
Hours of googling later and I still can't resolve what seems to be a very simple permission issue. Advice? Thanks in advance.
Additional Information
I just noticed the following occurs at the beginning of the process:
rsync: failed to set permissions on "/." (in BACKUP): Permission denied (13)
Is it trying to set permission on "/"?
Edit
I am logged in as the user - someuser. My destination directory has full read/write/execute permission for everyone, including it's contents. In addition, the destination directory is owned by someuser and in someuser's group.
Follow up
I've found using SSH solves this
Answer
Make sure the user you're rsync'd into on the remote machine has write access to the contents of the folder AND the folder itself, as rsync tried to update the modification time on the folder itself.