Re: Permission denied errors with --append-verify run as non-root user

Short answer: Don't use --append[-verify] If you aren't syncing files that aren't tagged with 'chattr +a' you don't want --append. --append-verify is essentially "I think --append is a good idea to use on general files but rsync keeps corrupting stuff!" but it still allows files to be out of

Permission denied errors with --append-verify run as non-root user

I noticed that my latest "syncHome" script log scontained a number of unexpected "Permission denied" errors for some modified files. The cause seems to be that those files were read-only at the target. The syncHome script is used to maintain a partial mirror of my home directory tree on another