Hi,
i am using rsync since years and i think it's one of the must-use tools.
Great!
Today i got my first problem after years of usage and the fantastic manpage
doesn't give me any answer, neither the web does.
I am starting with two directory "foo" and "bar" with a text file "test.txt"
in each of it. "foo" and "bar" and "test.txt" belongs to different owners.
-rw-r--r-- 1 janning janning 12 bar/test.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 postgres postgres 6 foo/test.txt
Now i want to sync the content of test.txt WITHOUT changing the ownership
(group, permissions, timestamp etc) on destination file (bar/test.txt)
I run rsync as root to get the permission to overwrite those files:
# rsync bar/ foo/
Result:
-rw-r--r-- 1 janning janning 12 bar/test.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12 foo/test.txt
Content is synced but ownership is set to "root". Of course i know "--owner"
to preserve the ownership. But this results in
-rw-r--r-- 1 janning janning 12 bar/test.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 janning janning 12 foo/test.txt
I need an option like "--preserve-ownership-on-destination", like "cp" it
should only copy the file and not its attributes like owner/group/permissions
Is it possible at all with rsync? Or did i miss something?
kind regards
Janning
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