Hello,

I'm trying to create a simple rsync backup script that I will copy using /boot/config/go to /etc/rsync.weekly:

rsync -av --delete /mnt/cache/apps/ /mnt/user/backup/rsync/unraid/apps

It works great, but some files from Plex directory (inside apps folder) won't copy to destination folder, giving following errors

rsync: failed to set times on "/mnt/user/backup/rsync/unraid/apps/plex/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Metadata/Movies/a/8eb63ba8ee7d8ade6f9cf6467ade9ef41773e15.bundle/Contents/_combined/posters/com.plexapp.agents.themoviedb_4ab9943100d8ad3d6a1bf4b2a55ecb7a7289ab73": No such file or directory (2)
rsync: failed to set times on "/mnt/user/backup/rsync/unraid/apps/plex/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Metadata/Movies/a/8eb63ba8ee7d8ade6f9cf6467ade9ef41773e15.bundle/Contents/_combined/posters/com.plexapp.agents.themoviedb_4d66b74f862f45aab533d1b243dc1b8e04d67b02": No such file or directory (2)
rsync: failed to set times on "/mnt/user/backup/rsync/unraid/apps/plex/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Metadata/Movies/a/8eb63ba8ee7d8ade6f9cf6467ade9ef41773e15.bundle/Contents/_combined/posters/com.plexapp.agents.themoviedb_4dd9b9fb57ef936c020b980cb47e890d3c18bb4d": No such file or directory (2)
rsync: failed to set times on "/mnt/user/backup/rsync/unraid/apps/plex/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Metadata/Movies/a/8eb63ba8ee7d8ade6f9cf6467ade9ef41773e15.bundle/Contents/_combined/posters/com.plexapp.agents.themoviedb_530dedd2c0ba1047222306e0b5f3e04425f03bab": No such file or directory (2)
rsync: failed to set times on "/mnt/user/backup/rsync/unraid/apps/plex/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Metadata/Movies/a/8eb63ba8ee7d8ade6f9cf6467ade9ef41773e15.bundle/Contents/_combined/posters/com.plexapp.agents.themoviedb_63d36ce06ab12b62a57e25f74a85e31ea022e950": No such file or directory (2)
rsync: failed to set times on "/mnt/user/backup/rsync/unraid/apps/plex/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Metadata/Movies/a/8eb63ba8ee7d8ade6f9cf6467ade9ef41773e15.bundle/Contents/_combined/posters/com.plexapp.agents.themoviedb_662fa45d158827cf198c76d76409e5a23cb1fe2e": No such file or directory (2)

 

and the rsync status:

rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1042) [sender=3.0.7]

 

Other apps and even other Plex files copy just fine. From what I found so far this seems to be permission problem, so I ran newperms script, but that didn't help. Any ideas?

I would like the answer to this as well.  I know it has to do with using the -a parameter and the user executing the rsync command must be the owner in order to set the write times.  I would think root should have permission to do anything, anywhere, but I'm not a nix person.  I dont want to change ownership of the Plex directory to root either since I don't know if that will break anything. 

 

My goal is to have this folder backup every morning from the cache drive to a protected array drive and not send me an huge error message in my inbox.  There has to be a way to do this.

Try it on the disk share. not the user share.

See how that works and report back.

 

maybe the filename is too long or the space in it and it's length are causing trouble.

 

Writing directly to disk share seems to work fine.

Thank you!