rsync Permission denied backing up a remote directory to my local machine
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I'm getting the error mentioned in the title. I found this similar question: Run rsync with root permission on remote machine. That doesn't answer my question. I'm the admin on the remote server and I want to use to back up files to my local box. Here's my rsync command: It mostly works. Login is v…
Error Output
$ rsync -avz me@myserver.com:/var/www/ /backups/Sites/MySite/
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Fix for: rsync Permission denied backing up a remote directory to my local machine
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You cannot back up a file which you cannot read otherwise, so the permissions will have to be either changed or overriden by root. Your options in more detail: Override the permissions by rsync'ing as directly. ( ...or by configuring sudo on the ser…
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