Hi, I have a problem of loss of file ownership with rsync. For some odd reasons, I have to use a windows machine as rsync server, and to backup/restore a filesystem from/to a linux client.
All files in my linux filesystem are owned by root, with gid root. If I save the files onto the windows rsync server from linux using rsync, and then restore them back to linux, the ownership for all files changes, becoming uid=400, gid=401. All other file attributes are correctly preserved, including read/write permissions and even setuid bits. Could you help me solving this problem? On windows I'm using cwRsync 1.1.0 on a 2003 server. Here is my rsyncd.conf on windows: ------- start of rsyncd.conf use chroot = false strict modes = false hosts allow = * log file = rsyncd.log pid file = rsyncd.pid [myalias] path = /cygdrive/c/cwrsync/data/mydir read only = false transfer logging = yes ------- end of rsyncd.conf On linux I'm using rsync 2.5.6, launching it with this syntax: /usr/local/bin/rsync -a -v -c --progress --stats rsync://<IPADDRESS>/<ALIAS> <LOCALDIR> Thank you for any help. -- Pier Paolo Glave __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html