rsync – Why rsync is Changing Directory Permissions

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I have an rsync setup that transfers files from my local development machine to my production web server. On the production server, the storage directory needs to be 775.

When the rsync completes, it gets changed to 755

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From man rsync:

-p, --perms                 preserve permissions

Assuming that you want to preserve all metadata and not just permissions, you probably want to use -a with -HAX, which implies -p.

-a, --archive               archive mode; equals -rlptgoD (no -H,-A,-X)

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Your situation sounds like a natural use for unionfs. With unionfs you could mount the production system's data as a read-only filesystem and mount a transparent writable filesystem layer on top of it that would accept your local changes.

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I think rsync's filter rules can't match the toplevel directory, so it's always synchronized. A workaround is to synchronize all the files inside this directory instead of the directory itself.

rsync -rlptDu -- * server.example.com:/usr/local/directory/

Add .[!.]* after * if you have dot files in the topmost directory, and ..?* if you have file names beginning with two dots.

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