never said it could only spoke about the fact that it does keep the permissions of the files that it transfers. At 07:54 AM 9/28/2004, you wrote: >Not exactly. rsync will do as you say, but only if those users also >exist on the target system. It cannot create new user accounts, and >shouldn't be able to, either. > >Now that I've strayed into 'shoulds,' I suppose we could posit the >notion of rsync for passwd and shadow, but this just too wacky because >it's dangerous. >Jack Mendez writes: > > there are several ways to accomplish what you want to do, rsync has very > > helpful documentation, I'd suggest reading the manpages for it however, > > here are a few quick solutions > > rsync -av will preserve all permissions on the destination machine, and > > you will need to make sure when transferring this back to use the same > > switch > > if you are backing up entire file systems and are special files you > need to > > use the linkdest option so the files get transferred properly > > additionally you can also backup remote file systems nfs smb etc, using > > rsync but be careful about using permissions based transfers with this > data > > because sometimes particularly with windows based smb mounts, the rsync is > > unable to preserve owner. > > > > Jack > > At 01:34 AM 9/28/2004, you wrote: > > >If rsync is used to backup data for multiple users, on to a system > whereon > > >the recipient for the files, is a single user, rsync will, of course, set > > >the user and group of all files, to the recipient user. > > > > > >If dealing with a large number of users, it is less than ideal, to create > > >all of the users on the target backup server. > > > > > >Is there any way to do such backups, in the rsync method, while still > > >preserving ownership data, but without creating all of the users > involved? > > >Some sort of meta ownership data. > > > > > >If not, what might be another method of doing this? > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >Speakup mailing list > > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >-- > > Janina Sajka, Chair > Accessibility Workgroup > Free Standards Group (FSG) > >janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040 > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
