Hi,
After reading this comment I decided to move the metadata folder of my Plex plugin (49.2GB at this moment) from the jail to a dedicated dataset outside the jail. This allows easy jail reinstallation in case of a plugin issue, which actually happened by the way, but that's another story.
The problem is that I want to move the metadata folder as it is, while keeping informations such as the owner, the group, the permissions, and timestamps of every single folder and file, because I don't know how Plex organizes its metadata and don't want to mess it with foolish differences like timestamps.
So I planned on using rsync like this :
But everytime I get errors like these :
According to what I found here, this is due to the fact that the user running the rsync command (root I believe since I used sudo) can't write the permissions and stuff to the copied files. I tried without sudo and got the same result. I even tried this :
Thinking it would then be the owner of the files itself who executes the command, but it didn't work either. By the way I have the same plex user on FreeNAS as on the jail (same UID/GID). Also the destination dataset is owned by the plex user/group.
Any idea on why this is happening and how I could make this work ?
After reading this comment I decided to move the metadata folder of my Plex plugin (49.2GB at this moment) from the jail to a dedicated dataset outside the jail. This allows easy jail reinstallation in case of a plugin issue, which actually happened by the way, but that's another story.
The problem is that I want to move the metadata folder as it is, while keeping informations such as the owner, the group, the permissions, and timestamps of every single folder and file, because I don't know how Plex organizes its metadata and don't want to mess it with foolish differences like timestamps.
So I planned on using rsync like this :
sudo rsync -ha "/mnt/Storage/jails/plexmediaserver_1/var/db/plexdata/Plex Media Server" "/mnt/Storage/Plex"But everytime I get errors like these :
rsync: failed to set permissions on "/mnt/Storage/Plex/some_path": Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: mkstemp "/mnt/Storage/Plex/some_path" failed: Operation not permitted (1)According to what I found here, this is due to the fact that the user running the rsync command (root I believe since I used sudo) can't write the permissions and stuff to the copied files. I tried without sudo and got the same result. I even tried this :
sudo -u plex rsync -ha "/mnt/Storage/jails/plexmediaserver_1/var/db/plexdata/Plex Media Server" "/mnt/Storage/Plex"Thinking it would then be the owner of the files itself who executes the command, but it didn't work either. By the way I have the same plex user on FreeNAS as on the jail (same UID/GID). Also the destination dataset is owned by the plex user/group.
Any idea on why this is happening and how I could make this work ?
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