Erik Jan Tromp wrote:
Depending on the degree of complexity you're willing to play with, 2 projects
come immediately to mind (there may be others, dunno):
http://freshmeat.net/projects/fakeroot/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/pretendroot/
Thanks for the pointer. fakeroot seems to do what I was looking for.
Actually, /usr/share/doc/fakeroot/README.saving gives a nice example how
fakeroot can be used with rsync for backup purposes using the -s option.
David
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