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rsync error: failed to set times on "/foo/bar": Operation not permitted

Asked 2009-03-20T21:01:46.340
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I'm getting a confusing error from rsync and the initial things I'm finding from web searches (as well as all the usual chmod'ing) are not solving it:

rsync: failed to set times on "/foo/bar": Operation not permitted (1)
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) 
  at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-35.2/rsync/main.c(992) [sender=2.6.9]

It seems to be working despite that error, but it would be nice to get rid of that.

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It could be that you don't have privileges to some of the files. From an administrator account, try "sudo rsync -av " Alternately, enable the root account and sign in as root. That should allow you to completely hose your system and brute force your rsync! ;-) I'm not sure if the above mentioned --extended-attributes will help, but I threw it in too, just for good measure.

answered 2010-02-15T21:08:15.233

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