On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 06:14:38PM +0200, Michael Zimmermann wrote: > Dear list members, > > there are two new rsync-features I made up and would like to discuss with you. > > If you think these new features might be useful for the whole rsync-community, > please give me a note and I'll send you the patches (or post them here). > > > > 1.) Setting owner and/or group of backup files. > > In our servers I'm using rsync to backup to a hot standby machine. > The users have access to this backup-server too, so that they > can retrieve older versions of their files. At the same time the backup > copies should not count in the user's quota (and/or should only > be deletable by root or a special group-admin). > > To accomplish this, the backup files get their user and/or group set to > a special user and/or group in our local version of rsync. > > Two new options control this behaviour > > --backup-owner=USER > --backup-group=GROUP
I don't like that; I think it is too special purpose. Can't you follow up the rsync with a find/chown? > 2.) Adding a non-default suffix to backup-files in the backup-directory too > > I'm not sure, wether this might be really useful but it was one of the > solutions for our backup-requirements which I was trying out. > > The idea was to put the backup-directory onto another disc (with > different quotas and read-only access) and at the same time give > the user access to more than one backup-version of his files within > his subtree-structure. This would be done by setting --suffix to (say) > the date and time of the backup. > > The behaviour change to rsync is: > > --suffix is added to the backup-files in the backup directory too, > if both are given and the suffix is not equal to the default-suffix > (or the --suffix option is specified after the --backup-dir option). That sounds like a fine idea to me. > Perhaps different environments need different solutions, hence I > propose to implement both features. > > Highly interested in your comments. - Dave Dykstra -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
