Unfortunately I'm having exactly the same problem with rsyncing from a Vista machine to an OS X server. I thought it was because I was using the -a flag (which includes preserving permissions) but removing that argument didn't solve the problem.
DaveB wrote:
My cygwin on Vista seems to work but when I try to do rsync to fixup files on my unix ftp server, it chokes with lots of errors and does a bizarre reset of the permission bits for the destination folder. Here's what happens:
[this is the same rsync command that works fine on XP]:
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$ rsync -avz --stats --progress -e ssh . mylogin@myftp.com:/mypath/wherever/
mylogin@myftp.com's password: xxxxxx
building file list ...
8 files to consider
./
rsync: failed to modify permissions on "/mypath/wherever/.": Permission denied (13)
rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat "/mypath/wherever/firstfile.xxx": Permission denied (13)
rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat "/mypath/wherever/secondfile.xxx": Permission denied (13)
...etc...
rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/mypath/wherever/." failed: Permission denied (13)
*** Skipping everything below this failed directory ***
...etc...stats...then...
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at /home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.6/main.c(791)
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Then after I have done this, I find that the remote directory has had all its permission bits turned off (chmod 0) and the files in the folder are not sync'd. As I said, this is a sequence I have used many times on XP and continues to work there.
