Rsync Users and Groups

2022-06-24 Thread Alexander Gribanov via rsync
Hello everybody! I'm trying to configure rsync-server, but still I can't figure out how to manage users and groups. I read in the documentation that I could use both, but there is nothing about how to add a user into a particular group... Why am I doing this? 1. I have about 10 modules, which

Re: Rsync Users and Groups

2022-06-24 Thread Alexander Gribanov via rsync
Hello, Kevin! Thank You very much for the reply. пт, 24 июн. 2022 г. в 19:00, Kevin Korb via rsync : > I think you are thinking too much of rsync here. Rsync groups are the > same as users they just have an @ in front of the name. If you want > UNIX style users and groups then use rsync over

Re: Rsync Users and Groups

2022-06-24 Thread Kevin Korb via rsync
I think you are thinking too much of rsync here. Rsync groups are the same as users they just have an @ in front of the name. If you want UNIX style users and groups then use rsync over ssh and get the bonus of ssh's authentication as well as not needing an rsyncd.conf file at all. On

Re: Rsync Users and Groups

2022-06-24 Thread Kevin Korb via rsync
Nope. Rsync groups are not groups of users they are just @users with their own password. I believe the @ just designates that you intend multiple people to have that password and use that username. On 6/24/22 12:34, Alexander Gribanov via rsync wrote: Hello, Kevin! Thank You very much for

Re: Customizing compression per file?

2022-06-24 Thread Kevin Korb via rsync
It actually does that by default. Though you might need to add to the list of file types with --skip-compress. On 6/24/22 19:35, Joseph Garvin via rsync wrote: I have an rsync cron job to backup folders that contain many different types of files. Most of these are uncompressed files, so the

Customizing compression per file?

2022-06-24 Thread Joseph Garvin via rsync
I have an rsync cron job to backup folders that contain many different types of files. Most of these are uncompressed files, so the -z option would speed up their transfer. However there are a few files that are already compressed where -z will just needlessly burn CPU and slow down the transfer.