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rsync chokes on read-only files

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Mar 15, 20262938 views
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Problem

I'm using rsync on Mac to back up to a USB drive or a network image (also HFS+ formatted). I'm having trouble with files from .svn subdirectories, such as 'all-wcprops' or 'entries' -- when checking out or updating, Subversion marks them as read-only (permissions bits are 444). My rsync command cho…

Error Output

rsync -aNHAX --inplace --verbose --delete --delete-excluded --fileflags --force-change --exclude-from=.rsync/exclude-list ~ $backup_dir

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Fix for: rsync chokes on read-only files

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I think you could either not use "--inplace" or synchronize in two steps. This enhancement of rsync could also help you.

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