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Dear list members,
there are two new rsync-features I made up and would like to discuss with you.
If you think these new features might be useful for the whole rsync-community,
please give me a note and I'll send you the patches (or post them here).
1.) Setting owner and/or group of backup files.
In our servers I'm using rsync to backup to a hot standby machine.
The users have access to this backup-server too, so that they
can retrieve older versions of their files. At the same time the backup
copies should not count in the user's quota (and/or should only
be deletable by root or a special group-admin).
To accomplish this, the backup files get their user and/or group set to
a special user and/or group in our local version of rsync.
Two new options control this behaviour
--backup-owner=USER
--backup-group=GROUP
2.) Adding a non-default suffix to backup-files in the backup-directory too
I'm not sure, wether this might be really useful but it was one of the
solutions for our backup-requirements which I was trying out.
The idea was to put the backup-directory onto another disc (with
different quotas and read-only access) and at the same time give
the user access to more than one backup-version of his files within
his subtree-structure. This would be done by setting --suffix to (say)
the date and time of the backup.
The behaviour change to rsync is:
--suffix is added to the backup-files in the backup directory too,
if both are given and the suffix is not equal to the default-suffix
(or the --suffix option is specified after the --backup-dir option).
Perhaps different environments need different solutions, hence I
propose to implement both features.
Highly interested in your comments.
Greetings
Michael
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Michael Zimmermann (Vegaa Safety and Security for Internet Services)
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