rsync: mkstemp failed: Permission denied (13) - sh

Question

I am writing one shell script which have below command to copy the code files from remote server to local server by skipping some file but it gives errors like :
Command :
rsync -avz --delete --exclude=**/cache --exclude=**/administrator/cache/ --exclude=**/tmp --exclude=**/configuration.php -e ssh $REMOTE_USER#$REMOTE_SERVER:$REMOTE_PATH $LOCAL_PATH
Errors :
1) rsync: mkstemp "/var/www/test.domainname/public/.sript.php.4FRyfv" failed: Permission denied (13)
2) rsync: mkstemp "/var/www/test.domainname/public/.access.txt.PECuqA" failed: Permission denied (13)
3) rsync: failed to set times on "/var/www/test.domainname/public/administrator/components/com_bconnect": Operation not permitted (1)
administrator/components/com_bconnect/
4) rsync: mkstemp "/var/www/test.domainname/public/administrator/components/com_bconnect/.config.xml.8LWLWF" failed: Permission denied (13)
Can you please help me out for above 4 errors.

Answer 1

I've just come across this error in a different form, i.e. attempting to rsync to a nested directory in /var/www/html on a remote server and not having write permission to the /var/www/html directory itself. In my case my error turned out to be due to mangled rsync syntax, but in your case you probably don't have permission to write to /var/www. This is where rsync is attempting to create its temporary files.
From my understanding you have two options:
use the
--temp-dir
parameter
use the
--inplace
parameter.
This is explained in the rsync man page and has also been asked before.

Answer 2

This is basically a permission issue for the remote/local directory to/from which one invites the data. I solved this error in a slightly differenr form again! I was sending files from the local ubuntu machine to the remote ubuntu machine through this.
rsync -arvz -e 'ssh -p 64060' ./SE-D-20-00279R2.pdf yogender#<IP>:</path/to/destination>
I had the same permission error:
rsync: mkstemp "<path/of/the/file2/you/try/to/rsync>" failed: Permission denied (13)
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rsync: mkstemp "<path/of/the/file2/you/try/to/rsync>" failed: Permission denied (13)
After fiddling around I find this solution:
Problem: the receiver doesn't know the permission with the sender
solution: Need to create the folder at the receiver side (big machine) with sudo.
sudo mkdir </path/to/directory/you/are/sending/file/to/remote/machine>
Give the permission to the folder, which will send the data to this directory:
sudo chown yogender </path/to/directory/you/are/sending/file/to/remote/machine>
yogender here is the admin or user. you can get it by doing "whoami" on remote machine (when you are sending data from local to remote)
Then simply:
rsync -zaP -e 'ssh -p 64060' ./SE-D-20-00279R2.pdf yogender#147.32.99.72:</path/to/directory/you/are/sending/file/to/remote/machine>>