Rsync Fails to Finish the Operation

Issue

Sometimes Rsync can't finish the operation in time, because Rsync can't set SEattribut to symbol link. The logs may show the error like the following:

Running: rsync -aHAX --exclude '/dev' --exclude '/proc' --exclude '/sys' --exclude '/selinux' --exclude '/tmp' --delete /mnt/onapp-backup-fpj2mne7y5d3xz/ /onapp/backups/u/q/uqwge7qrlvnyns/

rsync: rsync_xal_set: lsetxattr("usr/local/psa/admin/bin/.send-error-report.HZohSL","security.selinux") failed: Operation not supported (95)

rsync: rsync_xal_set: lsetxattr("usr/local/psa/bin/.yum_install.j805YS","security.selinux") failed: Operation not supported (95)

rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1039) [sender=3.0.6]

Fatal: Execution of rsync -aHAX --exclude '/dev' --exclude '/proc' --exclude '/sys' --exclude '/selinux' --exclude '/tmp' --delete /mnt/onapp-backup-fpj2mne7y5d3xz/ /onapp/backups/u/q/uqwge7qrlvnyns/ failed

Executing Rollback...

Resolution

At the moment, if SElinux is not used, you can use the following workaround:

1. Remove se attribute for the following file:
attr -S -r <Attribute> path_to_file

For example:

# attr -l ./file
Attribute "selinux.security" has a 1 byte value for ./file
Attribute "secondtt" has a 2 byte value for ./file

#attr -S -r secondtt ./file

2. Check mount options for both disks. Make sure that acl and user_xattr attributes are enabled:

/dev/sda on /onapp type ext4 (rw,acl,user_xattr)