Michael Sierchio writes:
> Does the same user exist on the remote system, with the same uid, etc.?
Yes.
> If you're using rsync with ssh as the transport, and connecting to the
> remote machine as the backups user, that's who will own the files on
> its local filesystem...
I thought rsync had so
Martin McCormick wrote:
> Rsync is a great utility, but is there a way to preserve
> ownership and permissions if rsync remotely logs in to a backup
> server as a normal user?
AFAIK, no, because only root may change the ownership of a file --
see chown(2).
> Any ideas are greatly ap
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Martin McCormick
wrote:
> Rsync is a great utility, but is there a way to preserve
> ownership and permissions if rsync remotely logs in to a backup
> server as a normal user?
Does the same user exist on the remote system, with the same uid, etc.?
If you'r
Rsync is a great utility, but is there a way to preserve
ownership and permissions if rsync remotely logs in to a backup
server as a normal user?
The recovery process is run by root but copies all the
files from the backup server as a normal user and uses its root
capabilities to r
