Of course rsync as root on the user host would resolve the problem, but as I don't like to ssh as root user I was wondering if there would be another solution?
Many thanks for your help and kind regards,
PS: Oh, If you have any best practices reading reference on backup scripts I am very interested!
Thanks in advance!
Thanks for the remark Corona, this is very interesting and I had not realised that!
But back to rsync issue:
If I understand well, the problem from rsync point of view is that it cannot open the file without the write permission, but why on earth do you need write permission to compare 2 files, surely read should be enough?
And why does rsync need to open the file?
rsync does not need write permission to a file to copy it, it only needs read. I suspect you have a read permission problem.
If you are not executing the command as root, which user is executing the command?
It is safe to say not the owner of the file, since it would had copy it.
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