rsync error: failed to set times on “/foo/bar”: Operation not permitted

Question

I\'m getting a confusing error from rsync and the initial things I\'m finding from web searches (as well as all the usual chmod\'ing) are not solving it:

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Answer 1

The problem in my case was that the "receiver mountpoint" was incorrectly mounted. It was in read-only mode (for some extrange reason). It looked like rsync was copying the files, but it was not. I checked my fstab file and changed mount options to default, re-mount file system and execute rsync again. All fine then.