On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 07:40:23AM -0500, Philip Mak wrote:
> Giving the situation some more thought, it might not be hard to be able to
> use rsync to preserve file ownership without having root access. It would
> be just a matter of getting a "ls -lR" of the data, and having some
> program that can parse that to recover the original file ownership if
> necessary.
>
> Has anyone already done something like this by any chance?
Have a look at the BSD mtree(8) utility, in particular the -U option.
--
Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ Santa Clara, CA
_/ _/ _/
_/ _/_/_/
_/ _/ _/ _/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] _/_/ _/_/_/ use Std::Disclaimer;
