Rsync from FreeBSD to Debian failing with llistxattr(“…”) failed: Invalid...

drywall_dan

I use TrueNAS’s Rsync jobs to backup certain pools onto a Debian server. I’m using rsync over SSH via the root account on both the client (TrueNAS in this case) and the server. The command run is something like this: /usr/local/bin/rsync -a --delay-updates --delete-delay -X -p -r -t --exclude ‘clone-auto-*’ -M --log-file=/var/log/rsync/mypool.log -e ‘ssh -p 22 -o BatchMode=yes -o StrictHostKeyChecking=yes’ /mnt/Vol03/Subvol01/MyPool...

Originally asked by daveslab on Stack Exchange (superuser) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

I was finally able to make it work by taking out the -X option and not syncing the Extended Attributes. From the man page: -X, --xattrs This option causes rsync to update the destination extended attributes to be the same as the source ones. For systems that support extended-attribute namespaces, a copy being done by a super-user copies all namespaces except system. . A normal user only copies the user. namespace. To be able to backup and restore non-user namespaces as a normal user, see the --fake-super option. What is odd is that for 99.9...% of the files, it works just fine and syncs the extended attributes but only for certain files it fails. Like I mentioned above it might be related...

Full answer by daveslab: https://superuser.stackexchange.com/a/1886162 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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