Regarding ownership on the destination:
rsync's man page indicates that when synchronizing files to a remote host, -o implies the --numeric-ids option, which makes perfect sense aince the named users/groups may not exist on the destination host. The problem I have is that the files created on the destination still appear to be owned by the local user (server1) on the rsync server. I do want to preserve the actual ownership. How can I ensure this is done?
Here's an example of my configuration:
rsyncd.conf on 192.168.1.1:
log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log max connections = 4 #redundant chroot since this is the default, but just to be sure... use chroot = yes
[server1]
path = /netdisk/server1/mirror
comment = server1 Server Root
list = no
read only = no
auth users = server1server
secrets file = /root/rsync-passwd
hosts allow = 192.168.100.1
#note that the uid and gid belong to a non-privileged linux user "server1" on this host
uid = server1
gid = server1
##################################
I run this from Server1:
rsync -av --delete --sparse --exclude="rsync-mirror.sh" --exclude="/proc/" --exclude="/tmp/" --exclude="/mnt/" --exclude="/dev/" --exclude="/backup/" --exclude="/backup2/" / [EMAIL PROTECTED]::server1/
I'm using rsync 2.5.7 protocol version 2.6
TIA
Joe
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