It seems that even if -p (or -a, etc) are not used, permissions are still propagated from client to server, though not updated. I was a bit surprised since the option is "preserve permissions", and permissions were preserved on the initial copy even without -p.
[ I am trying to rsync from Windows 7/Cygwin to (linux/unix). Windows 7/Cygwin is mapping ACL-style permissions (and I didn't have full control), and yielded mode=0, which was propagated to the client. Adding full control and a passwd entry yielded u+rwx, so that problem is solved. ] Ex: $ mkdir a $ touch a/test $ chmod go= a/test $ rsync -r a/ b/ $ ls -l a/test b/test -rw------- 1 vallonj vallonj 0 Aug 13 15:03 a/test -rw------- 1 vallonj vallonj 0 Aug 13 15:03 b/test # permissions were copied from a/test to b/test $ chmod go+r a/test $ rsync -r a/ b/ $ ls -l a/test b/test -rw-r--r-- 1 vallonj vallonj 0 Aug 13 15:03 a/test -rw------- 1 vallonj vallonj 0 Aug 13 15:04 b/test # without -p, no change $ rsync -rp a/ b/ $ ls -l a/test b/test -rw-r--r-- 1 vallonj vallonj 0 Aug 13 15:03 a/test -rw-r--r-- 1 vallonj vallonj 0 Aug 13 15:04 b/test # with -p, permissions were pushed $ chmod go= a/test $ rsync -r a/ b/ $ ls -la a/test b/test -rw------- 1 vallonj vallonj 0 Aug 13 15:03 a/test -rw-r--r-- 1 vallonj vallonj 0 Aug 13 15:04 b/test # not copied $ rm b/test $ rsync -r a/ b/ $ ls -la a/test b/test -rw------- 1 vallonj vallonj 0 Aug 13 15:03 a/test -rw------- 1 vallonj vallonj 0 Aug 13 15:04 b/test # propagated upon create $ rsync --version rsync version 3.0.7 protocol version 30 ... -- -Justin
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