On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 12:19:14PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> how do you backup system files like /etc/ over ssh to another machine
> and keep permissions the same on the remote backup location ?
One possibility you can try is to use a program that lets rsync pretend
to be root, such as fakeroot or pretendroot. I have fakeroot here that
I've used for small tasks. For instance:
WHO=/backup/foo
rsync -av --rsync-path="fakeroot -s $WHO.fake -i $WHO.fake -- rsync" \
/local/ host:$WHO/
As long as you never change the files in /backup/foo without using
fakeroot, you should be fine. E.g. if a user on host wants to change
something in /backup/foo, they would need to run fakeroot:
cd /backup
fakeroot -s foo.fake -i foo.fake # starts a shell
cd foo
...
exit
The fakeroot command stores attributes for things that can't be done the
save file (foo.fake). It doesn't appear to be a very efficient save
file, though, so you'd need to test how well it performs. Also, it
doesn't appear to handle simultaneous updates at all.
..wayne..
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