On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm wondering whether -avx is what others would use or whether >> there's a better set of options. > > I think that is the typical rsync backup command set as far as I have > ever seen. It should work as you expect it to work. Note that if you > use ACLs or extended attributes, you would need to additionally > specify -A and/or -X since they are not implied by -a. > > On a side note, I recently rsync'ed a drive between computers, one > running a Live CD and one not, over ssh, and somehow got all my > user/groups mixed up (I guess group 20 on one box was X but on another > box it was Y). Luckily I was able to identify it and fix it before > things got too broken. I'm not entirely sure what I did wrong, to be > honest. >
Thanks for the reply Paul. Is 'using ACLs' one of those things that if you don't know then you are not? I just run basic Gentoo here. All installs done as per the install guide. I don't even use LVM or anything fancy. (Which is likely part of why I'm having to reconfigure as much as I am but so be it.) Anyway, thanks for the info. I'll just give it a try and then see about maybe diffing the two drives or something like to to check. Cheers, Mark
