On Sun 10 Dec 2023, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Package: rsync > Version: 3.2.7-1 > > If I use > > rsync -SHa datafile usbdisk/ > > to archive a file on exfat (with destdir mounted as > > /dev/sdd2 /usbdisk exfat > rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,iocharset=utf8,errors=remount-ro > 0 0 > > ), then the mtime is not preserved, if the group ID of datafile is 100. > Error message is something like > > rsync: [receiver] chgrp "/usbdisk/datafile" failed: Operation not > permitted (1) > > If I change the group ID of the source datafile to 1000, the the mtime is set > correctly in the destination directory. > > This is unexpected. Setting UID and GID should be orthogonal to setting the > mtime.
When an error occurs when processing a file, the file is not processed further to prevent an escalation of errors. I recommend using --chown 1000:1000 after the -a in this case to prevent this error. I would also strongly recommend removing -SH as I believe exfat does not support sparse files nor hard links. Regards, Paul
