On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Janina Sajka 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. Right, which is what spauned the question, and why Jack's solution won't work. If you deal with 50-150 users, and if the backup target machine is not only used for this purpose (backing up this one machine, or one userspace of a single network), making all of those users, becomes a logistical nightmare, and difficult for other reasons.
