rsync: failed to set times ... Operation not permitted (1)

[dnacombo]

Describe the bug Not sure it's a bug or a feature request. I need to synch 2 folders on a nfs and local drive. The security restrictions are important on the nfs, so I don't have the ability to change the access time on the root directory I want to sync. This triggers the following error :

rsync: failed to set times on "/network/lustre/blah/DATAfolder/.": Operation not permitted (1)

My two questions are:

• Is there any way I can turn off setting times on the target directory? or ideally just the root of the target directory?
• Is there a chance that this time setting operation of the root directory is actually the last one performed by rsync, or triggers an exception that doesn't halt the execution, so I actually don't care too much...

To Reproduce Run osync in an environment where times cannot be set on the root target directory.

Environment (please complete the following information):

• Full osync version (including build): 2021062901
• OS: Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon
• Bitness x64
• Shell (busybox or else) bash

[deajan]

Sorry for the late reply. Could you try to add --no-times to RSYNC_OPT_ARGS in config file ? Be aware that synchroniation is time based, so ignoring access time is okay, mtime isn't.