Re: mv: permissions warning with samba mount

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

Derrick 'dman' Hudson (<dman@dman13.dyndns.org>) wrote:

> I have a shell script on one debian system here to back up certain
> portions of the filesystem.  It simply tars up the directories and
> moves the tar file to a samba share which is backed up by some already
> in-place windows software.
> 
> The problem is that mv is too noisy :
>     mv: failed to preserve ownership for
>     `/mnt/red1/Builds/cvsbackup/CVS-Backup-2004-01-21.tar.gz':
>     Operation not permitted
> 
> This is a problem because I then become conditioned to ignore emails
> from cron assuming they only contain this non-problem.  However,
> sometimes there is a real problem and I need to know about it.
> Therefore, I want this particular error message to not be reported,
> however I want other errors (for example No space left on device) to
> go to stderr.  When this script is run, stdout is sent to a log file
> and stderr (if any) is sent to me via mail.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Wouldn't the easiest way be to set the ownership of the file to that of
the Samba mount before moving it?

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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