On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 07:20 -0700, becca23 wrote: > Thanks for the help, i got the permissions issue worked out, but I'm > interested in this --rsync-path command. It seems like it could be a > powerful tool to make up for the lack of rsync commands in Delta copy.
Yes, you can use it to pass options straight to the rsync server (the rsync "3.0" on Linux) without the client (DeltaCopy's rsync 2.6.6) rejecting them. But this works only if the server can handle the option without any help from the client; otherwise, the protocol may become corrupted. --chmod is safe to pass directly to a server, but options like -o are not safe because they change the data exchanged between client and server. > Can > someone tell me how to use this to my advantage to change the group that is > assigned to the file in Linux. Since the groups in Windows and linux don't > transfer that well, I can't seem to get the transferred files assigned to > the right group. Detailed explanations please! thanks If all destination files should belong to the same group or perhaps different subtrees should belong to different groups: Give all files and directories to the desired groups manually using "chgrp". Then enable the setgid bit on directories by running (substitute the DEST): find DEST -type d -exec chmod g+s {} \; This makes a new file take the group of its containing directory instead of the default group of the creating process. Finally, omit the -g option to rsync so that rsync will not disturb the automatically assigned groups. Alternatively, if you wish to map specific Windows groups to specific Linux groups, you'll need to set up the desired mapping in the Cygwin compatibility layer that the rsync on Windows is using. This will be much easier with a full Cygwin installation. See: http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html Matt
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