Operation not supported (95) error for netware.metadata with rsync -X

Document ID:7024704
Creation Date:25-Jun-2020
Modified Date:25-Jun-2020
- Micro Focus Products:
  Open Enterprise Server

Environment

Open Enterprise Server 2018 (OES 2018) Linux

Open Enterprise Server 2015 (OES 2015) Linux

Situation

Error: rsync: rsync_xal_set: lsetxattr("/path/to/file","netware.metadata") failed: Operation not supported"
rsync with -X parameter with "nss /ListXattrNWMetaData" and "nss /CTimeIsMetadataModTime" set

Resolution

Be sure the target location is an NSS volume. Be sure the NSS volume is mounted. Attempting to write to /media/nss/VOL when VOL is not mounted will result in the data getting written to the root filesystem, which does not understand "netware.metadata".

Additional Information

Setting "nss /ListXattrNWMetaData" and "nss /CTimeIsMetadataModTime" on an OES server will expose the NSS metadata as an extended attribute called netware.metadata. The extended attribute can be transferred along with the files using "rsync -X". Both the source and target location need to be NSS with the mentioned NSS settings enabled.

For OES2018 simply run "nss /ListXattrNWMetaData" and "nss /CTimeIsMetadataModTime" at the command line. For OES2015 and earlier, first run nsscon and run these commands in the nsscon utility.