Copying file to remote server using rsync

[Henry Chua]

Hi Guys,
I am trying to use rsync to copy files over preserving owners, rights, group etc. but am having some problem:

rsync -avzopg -e "ssh -i /var/home/hchua/fr1httpmo01-rysnc-key" testing.txt hchua@192.168.60.71:/opt
building file list ... done
testing.txt
mkstemp .testing.txt.RSQLLk failed: Permission denied
wrote 250 bytes read 36 bytes 572.00 bytes/sec
total size is 417 speedup is 1.46
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(620)

May I know wat is wrong?
I create the key in my home dir.. do i need special previlege to do this?

Thanks!

regards
Henry

[Ivan Ferreira]

This is an excelent document that you can follow to configure Rsync over SSH:

http://www.jdmz.net/ssh/

[George Liu_4]

like this states,
mkstemp .testing.txt.RSQLLk failed: Permission denied

Check the permission.

[Henry Chua]

Thanks for the help guys, I have when thru the link as per your advise, but one question, isnt it possible to rsync with the rights, ownership by using -p and -o?

Thanks!

[Manuel Wolfshant · Accepted solution]

Hi henry

Make sure you are allowed to write in /opt. Usually ordinary users may not write over there, and you are trying to do that as user hchua. I guess you will have to run as root something similar to one of the following commands on the target computer:
chmod a+w /opt
or
chgrp hchua /opt && chmod g+w /opt
or
setfacl -m u:hchua:w /opt
The last one assumes /opt resides on a filesystem which was mount with extended acl rights (mount -o remount,acl /opt)

If you are not allowed to modify /opt, then either transfer to you home dir or to /tmp

[Bill Thorsteinson]

If you want to retain rightes and ownership
rsync must run as root. Rsync normally creates
a new file and moves it into place once it is
copied. Newer versions also have an inplace
option to update files without copying them.

I am waiting for my log source to updated so
I don't copy current logs on the log server.