Hello, I've been using rsync for some time as a data migration tool, but this time I'm trying to do something a little different, and I can't seem to make things work the way I want. Essentially, I want to rsync data from a source, but I want the owner/group/perms on the TARGET to not change (i.e. not get updated with the owner/group/perms from the source). In testing I discovered that using the -a or -ogp options WILL transfer over the owner/group/perms, but when I leave out these options, the target file becomes owned by root (the user running the rsync). Am I missing something really obvious, or is there no way to have the TARGET owner/group/perms remain as-is?
To keep things simple, I have NFS mounted the source and target filesystems and am rsyncing them as if they were local using the following command: rsync -xvr --stats $SOURCEmnt/ $TARGETmnt Thanks in advance for any help or advice. Dan Robichaud -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
