On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Sherin A <sherin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am doing rsync from root@10.0.0.10/home/foo to > storageuser@10.0.0.20/home/**storageuser/dailybackup/foo<http://storageuser@10.0.0.20/home/storageuser/dailybackup/foo> > over ssh (no role for -H) , so the storage files must be under the > ownership of storageuser and not the original owner > You should use the --fake-super option on the remote rsync so that it saves & restores original ownership using xattrs (the manpage describes the syntax you'd need, or there is a daemon option if an rsync daemon is involved). That way you get proper, original-owner restores. PS : if any one interested in making a patch with an additional option for > rsync for excluding hardlinks with -links +1 links , please help me This is not something I'll be looking into, FYI. ..wayne..
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