Re: rsync backup permissions

2008-10-10 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 18:43 -0400, Matthew Monaco wrote: > So would the receiving end need to be running in daemon mode? There > would be no way to set the proper ownership if it isn't? Not necessarily. The receiving end just needs to run as root, and that can be accomplished on a run over remot

Re: Re: rsync backup permissions

2008-10-10 Thread Matthew Monaco
So would the receiving end need to be running in daemon mode? There would be no way to set the proper ownership if it isn't? Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 14:38 +0100, michael wrote: >> On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 14:17 +0100, michael wrote: >>> I wish to use rsync to backup users' home

Re: rsync backup permissions

2008-10-09 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 14:38 +0100, michael wrote: > On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 14:17 +0100, michael wrote: > > I wish to use rsync to backup users' home dirs from machineA (Debian) to > > machineB (Fedora). I have a script, say backup.sh, in my own home dir > > and linked to from /etc/cron.daily and hav

Re: rsync backup permissions

2008-10-09 Thread michael
On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 14:17 +0100, michael wrote: > I had a quick look for an answer to what I'd presume is a common Q but > failed so wondering if somebody here would point me in the right > direction, please & thanks?! > > I wish to use rsync to backup users' home dirs from machineA (Debian) to