Unexpected behavior with --hard-links and --ignore-existing

2011-12-27 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi, this is a re-send, because I apparently needed to subscribe to the list first. The confirmation mail said: If you are joining the list with a held message, no NOT resend the message without first canceling the held message! I am sorry, but I am not sure if my previous mail counts as held

securing rsync backup solutions?

2011-12-27 Thread Daniel Pocock
For full system backup, rsync obviously needs to run as root on the machine being backed up For preservation of user/group/permissions info, rsync also typically needs to be run as root on the machine storing the backup - although there appear to be various ways to avoid this (e.g. using

Re: securing rsync backup solutions?

2011-12-27 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/27/11 13:26, Daniel Pocock wrote: For full system backup, rsync obviously needs to run as root on the machine being backed up For preservation of user/group/permissions info, rsync also typically needs to be run as root on the machine

Re: securing rsync backup solutions?

2011-12-27 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Tue, 27 Dec 2011, Daniel Pocock wrote: For full system backup, rsync obviously needs to run as root on the machine being backed up Not exactly, .. it is trivial to setup a root key on the 'to be backed up' machine that only authorizes the rsync command. Lee -- Please use reply-all

Re: securing rsync backup solutions?

2011-12-27 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/27/11 15:47, Daniel Pocock wrote: On 27/12/11 19:54, Kevin Korb wrote: On 12/27/11 13:26, Daniel Pocock wrote: For full system backup, rsync obviously needs to run as root on the machine being backed up For preservation of