On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Jack Mendez wrote: > okay but we were talking about preserving the permissions of the data, user > accounts do not need to be on the system the files are going on too in order > for the right permissions to be on them, in fact, if its just about storing > the files elsewhere gid and all of that gets retained even of those id do not > exist on the system Not with rsync, or the related tools, they don't. Permissions, yes; ownership without identical remote users, no.
