Rsync help for backing up to a old nas

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Hey all

I got a strange problem ( well its strange to me as am still new ish to linux)

i am trying to rsync files from my ubuntu server 22.04 to an old nas. i have managed to get the mount setup so I can view the nas i can copy files to the nas i can create folders on the nas via command line in ubuntu but when i use rsync i get this error

mason64@luss4:/mnt/share/backupoffice$ rsync -av /home/mason64/bandwidthtest.txt /mnt/share/backupoffice/test
sending incremental file list
bandwidthtest.txt
rsync: [receiver] mkstemp “/mnt/share/backupoffice/test/.bandwidthtest.txt.6xY4wo” failed: Operation not permitted (1)

sent 1,364 bytes received 35 bytes 2,798.00 bytes/sec
total size is 1,242 speedup is 0.89
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1333) [sender=3.2.3]

Could it be because its an old nas using SMB 1 ? this is just going to be used to backup files from a server daily using rsync for local backup only and will never have online access. (understand SMB 1 is not very secure.).

Would anyone have any ideas on why i cant use rsync but i can do it manually with cp “filename” “/mnt/share/backupoffice/test” and that works.

Thank you
Dave

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confirm the user permissions for the user running rsync on the remote directory. Does that user have access to write to the directory, and, create new sub-directories?

If it is acceptable to you, can you try running rsync with sudo?

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Hi @Mr_McBride Thanks for the reply.

I have tried with sudo and i get the same error i can manually in the command line create directories and sub directories no problem.

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Run

ls -l /mnt/share/backupoffice
id

This should give us an indication of what may be happening. Also run

ls -l /home/mason64/bandwidthtest.txt

Was this file created as root and does your user have permission to read the file?

In addition, from what I can tell, because you are using smb, the file attributes don’t get copied over. Why not try rsync via ssh instead of the smb mount?

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I had a similar issue with an SMB share that I had mounted. I couldn’t get the file ownership to sync to the SMB share. So I used the command rsync -rtDvWP --inplace --size-only --no-perms --delete, to copy the files. It’s not as simple -a option and I’m sure there’s a better way, but this worked for me.