Rsync Permissions – How to Preserve Permissions with Rsync

The samba permissions only work on the SMB (ie Windows) network clients. If you want to enforce this on the server (and any NFS clients) you need to set the sticky bit on all the directories.

first correct the files that are there:

chown -R archive /home/archive 
chgrp -R archive /home/archive 
find /home/archive -type d -exec chmod 0775 {} \;
find /home/archive -type f -exec chmod 0664 {} \;

then enforce this with the group sticky bit

find /home/archive -type d -exec chmod g+s {} \;

This is not infalable but does solve 99% of this sort of problem.

Regards DaveF

Result on my Solaris box:

davef@dalek[10]$ cd /proj/ftptmp
davef@dalek[11]$ ls -ld .
drwxrwsr-x  60 root     ftpusers     377 Oct  5 09:31 ./
davef@dalek[12]$
davef@dalek[12]$ ls -l foo.txt
foo.txt: No such file or directory
davef@dalek[13]$ touch foo.txt
davef@dalek[14]$ ls -l foo.txt
-rw-rw-r--   1 davef    ftpusers       0 Oct 15 11:49 foo.txt
davef@dalek[15]$ touch foo.txt
davef@dalek[16]$ ls -l foo.txt
-rw-rw-r--   1 davef    ftpusers       0 Oct 15 11:49 foo.txt
davef@dalek[17]$
davef@dalek[17]$ umask
2
davef@dalek[18]$

Most likely, rsync on the destination end is not running as a user with permission to chmod those files (which would have to be either the file's owner or root).