-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 How much of a backup of the system do you want to keep on the server? Also, are you intending that users are going to use the backups or something? Bc what you could do in that case, is copy the old passwd/shadow files from the machine in question to the backup server...And of course do it using something like scp. And then use tar/rsync to preserve the owner/permissions. Again, I can't be more helpful since I am not sure exactly what you are trying to do with the backups. HTH On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 12:34:49AM -0500, Luke Davis 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 - -- Failure is not an option, it comes bundled with your Microsoft product. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBWXs+Nohoaf1zXJMRAkGpAJ0cLDKIDpKX12yKa1EL5FHptr0q8wCfTT53 IKNPS7NsBVJvqfGQdMt7SZA= =H/Kh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
