On 20.06.2012 22:26, PEOPLES, MICHAEL P wrote: > I have spent a day researching and attempting to debug this issue. I am > hoping someone can tell me how (or disabuse me of the delusion that it's > possible) to do the following: ...
If running a command as root via sudo is acceptable. I had the exact same problem 2 days ago. I had to backup a machine where i only got a user-login, with sudo privilege. So after some googleing i tried (As root on the target machine, but you can also sudo that): rsync -avPxHz --delete --numeric-ids --rsync-path='sudo rsync' -e ssh user@remote:/ ./ and it worked, of course that only works if (remote) sudo doesn't ask for a password. Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. -- 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
