rsync server backup, but now created folder I can't delete / view!

Hi,

I'm trying to get a rsync scheduled task setup on my PC, that will do a rsync on my server and grab the files. So after a lot of hassle (getting the SSH key-pair working), I've finally got it going. My issue though, is that I was running this:

Code:

rsync -vcr -e "ssh -l root -i /cygdrive/F/ServerBackups/foo" "mysite.com:/srv/www/xxxx" "/cygdrive/F/ServerBackups/Foo"

For some reason that has done some weird stuff with the permissions. After reading up a bit on it, I found I should have really used the --chmod=ugo=rwX flag as well, to set the permissions. This is what I'm using now:

Code:

rsync -vcr --chmod=ugo=rwX -e "ssh -l root -i /cygdrive/F/ServerBackups/foo" "mysite.com:/srv/www/xxxx" "/cygdrive/F/ServerBackups/Foo2"

That works fine, and I can read Foo2, and all its contents. The proble now is getting rid of the "bad" one!

Andy@Andy-PC /cygdrive/F/ServerBackups
$ chmod 755 Foo
chmod: changing permissions of 'Foo': Permission denied

In Cygwin, here is this chmod's of that folder:

Andy@Andy-PC /cygdrive/F/ServerBackups
$ ls -lh
-rw-------+ 1 Andy Andy 1.7K Oct 25 10:13 foo
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 Andy Andy 0 Oct 25 08:57 known_hosts
d---rwxrwx+ 1 Andy Andy 0 Oct 25 10:21 Foo
drwxrwx---+ 1 Andy Andy 0 Oct 25 10:32 Foo2

Here is the permissions of the folder that I'm having issues with:



It has read-only ticked, so I have tried to remove that:


but then I just get this nasty error:


The folder is only a couple of hundred Mb's, but I'd still like to try and get rid of it if I can, so I can do some housekeeping =)T

Thanks!

Andy

Thanks bro :) I actually have it all working (its backing up 6 of my sites now perfectly, and is set to run in the morning at 9am, after the server backups have finished. The only issue I have, is removing the "incorrect" one I did to start with. Maybe I'll just leave it, as its only a few hundred mb (on a 500gb SSD), so not wasting too much space. I was just hoping there was a simple fix :)

CheersAn
dy

Cool. thanks! Yeah it's tricky using a wrapped like Cygwin to emulate a *nix backend so that it can run. It's worked really well for me so far (all my sites are backed up locally, and it's doing the morning backup now, and only downloading the changed files :))

Cheers

Andy

I just came across this thread after looking for a solution to a similar problem.

I was using rsync under cygwin on Windows 10 to perform some backups and used a command similar to the OP:

Code:

rsync -rltvWi --del '/cygdrive/c/big/foo/bar' '/cygdrive/c/big/bak/foo/'

This created a folder at C:\big\bak\foo\bar that could not be opened, deleted, **or** have its permissions changed at all.
It also could not be deleted using cygwin "rm -rf" or using Windows Subsytem for Linux as root. Cygwin "chmod" and "chown" could not operate on it either.
It was truly a fubared directory. The **only** thing I could do was rename the "bar" directory to something else ("bar.TRASH").

First of all, the solution for creating this nightmare in the first place was to edit the /etc/fstab file in cygwin and append ",noacl" to the entry for the "/cygdrive" volume.
This allowed the above rsync command to complete successfully and create a backup directory that could be browsed and interacted with normally.

Finally, the solution to delete the fubared directory was to use cygstart for privilege escalation as follows. Note, this can be done from either a cygwin or cmd terminal:

Code:

cd /cygdrive/c/big/bak/foo/
cygstart --action=runas rm -rf bar.TRASH

This results in a Windows UAC prompt for Administrator privileges to run "rm" which was then successful in deleting the undesired directory.