Re: rsync - Management of UIDs and GIDs when reserved on a Remote system

2015-05-18 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 No, rsync would store the files with the numeric UID and GID as is on the source without regard to the existence or non-existence of a matching account. This could mean that ls would show numbers in those columns, or incorrect names in those columns,

Re: rsync - Management of UIDs and GIDs when reserved on a Remote system

2015-05-18 Thread Michael
Kevin Korb sanitarium.net> writes: > > 3) --numeric-ids copies both as the number. This is what you normally > want for backups. This way you have the exact UID and GID stored on > the backups regardless of what those numbers mean to the backup > system. Just remember to use --numeric-ids when

Re: rsync - Management of UIDs and GIDs when reserved on a Remote system

2015-05-18 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rsync has 4 options for this... 1) Write all files as the owner and group that rsync is running as. This is the default and the only possibility when not running as root since only root can create files as a different UID. 2) Copy the user name and g

Re: rsync - Management of UIDs and GIDs when reserved on a Remote system

2015-05-18 Thread Simon Hobson
Michael wrote: > I would like to know how rsync would manage the situation where the UID and > GID(s), of a file being copied to a Remote system, have been reserved on the > Remote system. Does rsync search for and allocate the next available IDs? AFAIK, if you don't specify the "numeric-ids" op

rsync - Management of UIDs and GIDs when reserved on a Remote system

2015-05-18 Thread Michael
Hi Wayne et al, I've been using Linux for a little over a year now. I'm making improvements to the English phrasing used by luckyBackup which uses rsync. English is my first language and I'm doing this so that I can, then, more accurately make translations for the Spanish language. I would like

Re: mtime not updating on remote directory

2015-05-18 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Seems to work when I tried it. Is the directory listed when you run it? What does --itemize-changes say? My first guess is that it would be an interaction between --checksum and --ignore-times which are fairly opposite functions and --checksum is us

mtime not updating on remote directory

2015-05-18 Thread tomr
Hello, I'm using rsync as part of a centralised config management for several servers. I'm trying to monitor the mtime of a particular directory and confirm that the remote copies are approximately as new as the the local master. However, mtime on that directory is not being synced. Here's m

Two questions

2015-05-18 Thread Дугин Сергей
Hello, Rsync. rsync version 3.0.9 protocol version 30: 1) Why test.log changes not only on the parameter --log-file-format and the parameter --out-format? rsync -a --delete -vv --log-file-format="%i|%o|%B|%U|%G|%M|%f" --log-file=/home/test.log /home/124/ /home/1/ 2015/05/18 12:40:43 [2114