I backed up all the user files on machine using rsync, and I have a directory on my backup machine that looks like:
0 drwxr-xr-x 26 1017 1018 884 Nov 20 08:03 bea 0 drwxr-xr-x 25 1039 1040 850 Aug 21 03:58 charles 0 drwxr-xr-x 10 1033 1034 340 Mar 1 2004 deliv 0 drwxr-xr-x 11 1034 1035 374 Mar 12 2004 dlucas 0 drwxr-xr-x 31 1012 1013 1054 Nov 5 08:28 etay 0 drwxr-xr-x 27 1027 1028 918 May 20 2009 hankz 0 drwxr-xr-x 12 1028 1029 408 Apr 3 2009 holly Now I want to transfer all these files to the new machine, but preserving the UID/GID combinations. I am assuming that I need to (temporarily) set the rsync daemon on the new machine to run as root. Is that as simple as setting the rsyncd.conf uid = root gid = wheel or is there anything else I need to do? My current file looks like this: uid = nobody gid = nobody use chroot = no max connections = 4 syslog facility = local5 [root] path = / comment = root auth users = root read only = no secrets file = /usr/local/etc/rsyncd.secrets -- I draw the line at 7 unreturned phone calls. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html