--fake-super locally?

I'm rsyncing files on system1 to its external HD. system2 is remote and pulls those files from the external HD. system2 does not have root privileges on system1 so I chown the files to pull. Can I somehow use --fake-super or something similar to save the original ownership info to ACLs? - Grant

[Bug 10037] New: do_mknod fails to create socket file

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10037 Summary: do_mknod fails to create socket file Product: rsync Version: 3.0.9 Platform: All OS/Version: Solaris Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P5 Compo

if i want to delete a million files, can rsync be more faster than rm?

i found two article said that rsync -a --delete empty/ a1/ will much more faster than rm when deleting millions files: http://linuxnote.net/jianingy/en/linux/a-fast-way-to-remove-huge-number-of-files.html http://www.quora.com/File-Systems/How-can-someone-rapidly-delete-400-000-files but my test g

[Bug 10035] New: rsync hangs in solaris

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10035 Summary: rsync hangs in solaris Product: rsync Version: 3.0.9 Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P5 Component: core

Re: wildcards and nested files

>>Is there a rule I can apply to figure out the proper order for includes >>and excludes? > > Rules are evaluated in the order they are defined. The first rule with a > pattern that that matches is the rule that applies. That makes sense, thank you for all your help. - Grant -- Please use reply