On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 10:02 +0800, Zhiming Zhou wrote: > Thanks very much, I noticed that the owner user and group of my "test" > files in local are changed, so rsync thought files are different from > remote rsync server, and the "--link-dest" option does works in Linux > now after run "chown". > > So, is there some option in rsyncd.conf or in rsync command to prevent > rsync to check owner user/group of files between rsync server and > client.
The -a option is equivalent to -rltpogD, where the -o and the -g tell rsync to preserve the user and group owners. To avoid preserving them, you could change -a to -rltpD (perhaps -D isn't necessary) or to -a --no-o --no-g . Matt -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
