Re: selinux and rsync backup to zfs dataset

On Dienstag, 9. Juni 2026 00:14:31 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit David C 
Rankin wrote:
> On 6/8/26 8:14 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> > BKUP_OPTIONS=(
> > 
> >    --archive --one-file-system
> >    --hard-links --acls --xattrs
> >    --numeric-ids
> >    --delete-excluded --delete-during
> >    --filter="-x security.selinux"
> >    --filter=${FILTERFILE}
> >    --exclude-from=${EXCLFILE}
> >    --verbose --stats --no-human-readable
> > 
> > )
> > 
> > /usr/bin/rsync "${BKUP_OPTIONS[@]}" "${FS}" "${BKUPTARGET}"
> > 
> > leads to
> > 
> > rsync: [receiver] rsync_xal_set:
> > lremovexattr("<targetfile>","security.selinux") failed: Permission
> > denied (13)
> > 
> > for the target files.
> > 
> > Not sure, why it works for you. Can it be a difference between local
> > and remote?
> 
> I can't find the actual bug report, but there were a number of
> regressions introduced in rsync within the past week or so. You may
> want to see if you can run down the details on which option this
> impacted:
> 
> https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/04/please-do-not-vibe-f-> up-this-software-broken-backups-spark-ai-coding-row-in-rsync-project/5
> 251189
> 
> Seems Andrew had a couple of Claude... Ooops' that flew under the
> radar. Specifically that impacted a number of the less frequently
> used backup options.
> 
> I don't know if this is your issue, but it is a distinct possibility.

Indeed with the latest rsync version the error messages disappeared. 
Even --filter="-x security.selinux" isn't nessessary, --xattrs works as 
before.

Name        : rsync
Version     : 3.4.3
Release     : 2.1
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: So 14 Jun 2026 16:31:30 CEST
Group       : Productivity/Networking/Other
Size        : 1008611
License     : GPL-3.0-or-later
Signature   : RSA/SHA512, Fr 12 Jun 2026 19:34:35 CEST, Key ID 
35a2f86e29b700a4
Source RPM  : rsync-3.4.3-2.1.src.rpm
Build Date  : Di 09 Jun 2026 23:24:43 CEST

Thx for this hint.

Bye.
Michael.