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 someuser 192 168 100 100 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

rsync - mkstemp failed: Permission denied (13)

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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.

~ Answered on 2012-06-14 20:52:53

rsync - mkstemp failed: Permission denied (13)

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