Error message during Rear backup with rsync: failed to write xattr user.rsync.%stat for <file> Operation not permitted
Issue
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During a Rear backup configured with rsync method with user other than root, we get this kind of error messages:
rsync: failed to write xattr user.rsync.%stat for "/srv/backup/var/lib/gssproxy/default.sock": Operation not permitted (1) rsync: failed to write xattr user.rsync.%stat for "/srv/backup/var/spool/postfix/private/anvil": Operation not permitted (1) rsync: failed to write xattr user.rsync.%stat for "/srv/backup/var/spool/postfix/private/bounce": Operation not permitted (1) rsync: failed to write xattr user.rsync.%stat for "/srv/backup/var/spool/postfix/private/defer": Operation not permitted (1) rsync: failed to write xattr user.rsync.%stat for "/srv/backup/var/spool/postfix/private/discard": Operation not permitted (1) rsync: failed to write xattr user.rsync.%stat for "/srv/backup/var/spool/postfix/private/error": Operation not permitted (1)
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Rear - Relax And Recover
- rsync
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