Hi A datacenter I use provides mountable nfs shares that are provided through a subnet, the only person having access to the nfs share is me. If I do this: mount -t nfs 192.168.53.21:/USERNAME /mnt/share/ then I get the share: [root@hostname /mnt/share] #>ls -la total 12 drwxrwxrwx 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 Oct 9 18:04 . drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Oct 9 17:55 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 nfsnobody nfsnobody 0 Oct 9 18:01 test I want to use this as a snapshot backup drive, so I need to have the permission on the backup the same as on the source, e.g. rsync -avH /bin /mnt/share Off course this fails: rsync: chown "/mnt/share/bin/.zcat.WDISFU" failed: Operation not permitted (1) How can I make this possible? Jobst -- The reason you cannot think about eternity is because the intellect which is doing the thinking is an instrument of time and nothing else. | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jobst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L & The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos