rsync - mkstemp failed Permission denied 13

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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

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Yet still another way to get this symptom: I was rsync'ing from a remote machine over ssh to a Linux box with an NTFS-3G (FUSE) filesystem. Originally the filesystem was mounted at boot time and thus owned by root, and I was getting this error message when I did an rsync push from the remote machine. Then, as the user to which the rsync is pushed, I did:

$ sudo umount /shared
$ mount /shared

and the error messages went away.

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Even though you got this working  I recently had a similar encounter and no SO or Google searching was of any help as they all dealt with basic permission issues wheres the solution below is somewhat of an off setting that you wouldn t even think to check in most situations   One thing to check for with permission denied that I recently found having issues with rsync myself where permissions were exactly the same on both servers including the owner and group but rsync transfers worked one way on one server but not the other way   It turned out the server with problems that I was getting permission denied from had SELinux enabled which in turn overrides POSIX permissions on files folders   So even though the folder in question could have been 777 with root running  the command SELinux was enabled and would in turn overwrite those permissions which produced a  permission denied -error from rsync   You can run the command getenforce to see if SELinux is enabled on the machine   In my situation I ended up just disabling SELINUX completely because it wasn t needed and already disabled on the server that was working fine and just caused problems being enabled   To disable  open  etc selinux config and set SELINUX disabled   To temporarily disable you can run the command setenforce 0 which will set SELinux into a permissive state rather then enforcing state which causes it to print warnings instead of enforcing

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I had the same issue  so I first SSH into the server to confirm that I able to log in to the server by using the command  ssh -i  Users Desktop mypemfile pem user ec2 compute-1 amazonaws com  Then in New Terminal I copied a small file to the server by using SCP  to make sure I am able to make a connection  scp -i  Users Desktop mypemfile pem  Users Desktop test file user ec2 compute-1 amazonaws com  home user test   Then In the same new terminal  I tried running rsync  rsync -avz -e  quot ssh -i  Users Desktop mypemfile pem quot   Users Desktop backup image img gz user ec2 compute-1 amazonaws com

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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

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I had the same issue in case of CentOS 7  I went through lot of articles  forums but couldnt find out the solution  The problem was with SElinux  Disabling SElinux at the server end worked  Check SELinux status at the server end  from where you are pulling data using rysnc  Commands to check SELinux status and disable it   getenforce  Enforcing                    this means SElinux is enabled   setenforce 0   getenforce  Permissive  Now try running rsync command at the client end  it worked for me  All the best

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Surprisingly nobody have mentioned all powerful SUDO  Had the same problem and sudo fixed it

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If you re on a Raspberry pi or other Unix systems with sudo you need to tell the remote machine where rsync and sudo programs are located  I put in the full path to be safe  Here s my example  rsync --stats -paogtrh --progress --omit-dir-times --delete --rsync-path   usr bin sudo  usr bin rsync    mnt drive0  pi 192 168 10 238  mnt drive0

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This might not suit everyone since it does not preserve the original file permissions but in my case it was not important and it solved the problem for me  rsync has an option --chmod      --chmod This option tells rsync to apply one or more comma-separated lqchmodrq strings to the permission of the files in the transfer  The   resulting value is treated as though it was the permissions that the   sending side supplied for the file  which means that this option can   seem to have no effect on existing files if --perms is not enabled    This forces the permissions to be what you want on all files directories  For example   rsync -av --chmod Du rwx SRC DST   would add Read  Write and Execute for the user to all transferred directories

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Rsync daemon by default uses nobody nogroup for all modules if it is running under root user  So you either need to define params uid and gid to the user you want  or set them to root root

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I encountered the same problem and solved it by chown the user of the destination folder  The current user does not have the permission to read  write and execute the destination folder files  Try adding the permission by chmod a rwx  lt folder file name gt

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I imagine a common error not currently mentioned above is trying to write to a mount space  e g    media drivename  when the partition isn t mounted  That will produce this error as well    If it s an encrypted drive set to auto-mount but doesn t  might be an issue of auto-unlocking the encrypted partition before attempting to write to the space where it is supposed to be mounted

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I had a similar issue  but in my case it was because storage has only SFTP  without ssh or rsync daemons on it  I could not change anything  bcs this server was provided by my customer   rsync could not change the date and time for the file  some other utilites  like csync  showed me other errors   Unable to create temporary file Clock skew detected   If you have access to the storage-server - just install openssh-server or launch rsync as a daemon here   In my case - I could not do this and solution was  lftp  lftp s usage for syncronization is below   lftp -c  open -u login password sftp   sft domain tld   mirror -c --verbose 9 -e -R -L  srs folder  rem folder     src folder - is the folder on my PC   rem folder - is sftp   sft domain tld rem folder   you may find mans by the link lftp yar ru lftp-man html

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Windows   Check permissions of destination folders   Take ownership if you must to give rights to the account running the rsync service

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Take attention on -e ssh and jenkins localhost  in next example   rsync -r  -e ssh --chown jenkins admin --exclude  git --exclude Jenkinsfile --delete    jenkins localhost  home admin web xxx public   That helped me  P S  Today  i realized that when you change  add  jenkins user to some group  permission will apply after slave  agent  restart  And my solution  -e ssh and jenkins localhost   need only when you can t restart agent server

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I have Centos 7 server with rsyncd on board   etc rsyncd conf   files  path    files   By default selinux blocks access for rsyncd to  files folder    this sets needed context to my  files folder sudo semanage fcontext -a -t rsync data t   files        sudo restorecon -Rv   files    sets needed booleans sudo setsebool -P rsync client 1   Disabling selinux is an easy but not a good solution

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run in root access ssh chould solve this problem  or chmod 0777  dir to be backedup   or chown username user  dir to be backedup

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I had the same error while syncing files inside of a Docker container and the destination was a mounted volume  Docker for mac   I run rsync via su-exec  lt user gt   I was able to resolve it by running rsync as root with -og flags  keep owner and group for destination files    I m still not sure what caused that issue  the destination permissions were OK  I run chown -R  lt user gt  for destination dir before rsync   perhaps somehow related to Docker for Mac slow filesystem

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