On 8/14/06, Craig Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Cameron writes:
>
> > I'm thinking of changing perms, owner, group, and maybe times all to
> > no-OPTIONs. However, I'm concerned about how this will affect the
> > program as I don't understand how File::RsyncP works, as it says in
> > the comments. Can I go ahead and do this? Do I need times off or just
> > the owner/group/perms off?
>
> File::RsyncP doesn't understand the -no options.
> Just try removing:
>
>     '--perms',
>     '--owner',
>     '--group',
>
> I have't tested that before, so please tell me whether
> it works.

I commented out those options, and did a full backup with Windows (so
I guess commenting the options works fine). I got entries like this
(lots of same and pool, a few create for empty file, and all the
usuall create d for directories):
  create   644       0/0           0 Filename
  same     644       0/0        2249 Filename
  pool     644       0/0     1117184 Filename
  create d 755       0/0           0 Dirname

So it looks like I dropped the user/group, but the file permissions
are still there. Then I did an incremental in Windows, which was the
same as before (short and sweet). Then a long incremental in Linux
gave entries like this (lots of same, lots of create for empty file,
the usual create d):
  create   555       0/0           0 Filename
  same     555       0/0       41812 Filename
  create d 555       0/0           0 Directory

This is exactly as before, so removing the options from rsync really
had no effect on the linux backup. Just for completeness, here are the
backup size summaries, full (17) and first incr (18) are on Windows,
other (19) is on linux:
17       full    4731    2140.6          10.10           4731    2140.6         
 292     0.1
18      incr    0       0.0     0.00    0       0.0     3       0.0
19      incr    4731    2140.6  16.59   4731    2140.6  5       0.0

I feel like I'm closer, but I don't understand why rsync seems to be
preserving the permissions on Windows even when I've told it not to.
Any ideas? Do I need to empty my pool in order for the rsync option
changes to be effective? Could this be related to how I'm mounting the
Windows filesystem under linux (with options
ro,users,auto,group,umask=0222)?

Thanks again for all your help,
Cameron

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