I am trying to rsync Solaris non-global zone from the global running the following command (from a script): rsync -aSzx --del --ignore-errors --stats \ --exclude "sc-gis03/root/proc/*" \ --exclude "sc-gis03/root/var/run/*" \ --exclude "sc-gis03/root/system/contract/process/*" \ boi-blade02:/zones/sc-gis03 /zones where `sc-gis03' is a running Solaris zone to be copied. The problem I run into is this. sc-gis03 has two NFS mounts. The mountpoints are /docrep01 and /backup01. From rsync perspective, they appear as: /zones/sc-gis03/root/docrep01 /zones/sc-gis03/root/backup01 Since the two entries above are mountpoints, rsync does not have access to them, and returns the following errors: rsync: readlink_stat("/zones/sc-gis03/root/docrep01") failed: Not owner (1) rsync: readlink_stat("/zones/sc-gis03/root/backup01") failed: Not owner (1) This is fine, nothing can be done about it. What seems to be wrong is that rsync deletes these directories in the destination, as can be seen from a verbose run: deleting sc-gis03/root/docrep01/ deleting sc-gis03/root/backup01/ IMHO, if rsync cannot stat a file because it does not have permissions to do so, it should just leave it alone. In case you are wondering, my script captures those `readlink_stat' errors, and creates the directories after rsync exits, so next time the whole cycle is repeated. Environment: # uname -a SunOS plt-blade06 5.10 Generic_144488-12 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-T6320 # # rsync --version rsync version 3.1.0 protocol version 31 Copyright (C) 1996-2013 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others. Web site: http://rsync.samba.org/ Capabilities: 64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 32-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints, socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, IPv6, batchfiles, inplace, append, ACLs, xattrs, iconv, no symtimes, no prealloc