rsync in an ssh tunnel as root

2006-11-02 Thread rado
whew I dunno bout the subject but here's what I want to do I use rsync automatically thru scripts. but I do this wrong and I want to get my act together I was/am set to do ssh root login but I want to do away w/this. rather, I want to be able to let rsync do it's thing and do a full backup or w

rsync in an ssh tunnel as root

2006-11-02 Thread rado
rewind...I found something in the docs there might even be more. I wanna see what I can do w/the doc stuff first. thx y'all John Rose -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: Xattr on FreeBSD ... Good Luck ?

2006-11-02 Thread Victor Shoup
There is a third way: Simply keep all the files you want backed up in a UFS formatted partition on the mac. This way, all the metadata for file foo is in the file ._foo, and rsync backs these up perfectly, and all the data and metadata can also be accessed vi NFS. Restoring is a bit of a p

Re: Xattr on FreeBSD ... Good Luck ?

2006-11-02 Thread Wesley W. Terpstra
On Nov 2, 2006, at 5:10 AM, Ensel Sharon wrote: All I know is, I have a FreeBSD backup server, and some dude in creative wants to rsync his stuff up and _maintain_ the fancy little OSX meta-data, etc. So all I need to know are: 1. Is this even my problem ? Can I just stay at 2.6.6 and this