Hi, With some help from the good people on this list, I got a simple home network setup, and I'm now using it to backup my laptop to my desktop using rsync. I have one question though - I'm backing up /etc, /home, /opt, and parts of /usr and /var. I want to preserve ownership, but if I do the backup from my user account as:
rsync -av --include-from=/home/tyler/rsync_includes / etch.mynetwork:/home/tyler/laptop Then the ownerships all get set to tyler tyler, even when they are originally root root. In order to preserve the ownerships, I have to run the above command as root, which requires that I configure sshd on the desktop to accept root logins. Even behind a NAT router, that doesn't seem like a good idea. Am I missing something? Thanks, Tyler -- Support standardized open formats and control your own data - Reject Microsoft OOXML http://noooxml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]