Another work around that just came to mind, is to create an apache user and group on the destination machine, and give them the same UID / GID as the nobody : <whatever> - then rsync might inadvertently "do the right thing". Please test, I am not certain if that'll actually do what it sounds like it should. :)
Yes, this will work. rsync translates uid/gid numbers based on userid/group when moving data between computers. If you create an apache user/group on the destination machine with the same uid/gid as user:nobody than rsync will make things right.
I've used this to move data between servers and maintain proper ownership.
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