rsync over samba permissions problem

2009-02-18 Thread reader4
I have found several posts related to this problem, but can't find a good answer... hopefully someone here can help. I am trying to backup my /home/user directory to /mnt/backup, which is a CIFS mount owned by 'user'. However, when I run "sudo rsnapshot hourly" (rsync), all of the directories co

symlinks and different $HOME variables

2007-02-14 Thread reader4
I have a laptop and desktop that have most of home directory data sync'd, but I am having trouble keeping symlinks straight. On the desktop, my data is separate from the $HOME folder... $HOME = /remote/home/desktop/ and the data is at /data/. Within /data/, I have several directories that are in