Re: Trying to preserve UID and GID when backing up with rsync

2011-02-14 Thread Robert Crida
Awesome, thanks for the feedback. I had actually managed to work it out in the meantime... On 14 Feb 2011, at 3:54 PM, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Mon 14 Feb 2011, Robert Crida wrote: > >> I am in early prototyping phase now and have the following rsyncd.conf file: >> max connections = 4 >> >> [

Re: Trying to preserve UID and GID when backing up with rsync

2011-02-14 Thread Paul Slootman
On Mon 14 Feb 2011, Robert Crida wrote: > I am in early prototyping phase now and have the following rsyncd.conf file: > max connections = 4 > > [school1] > path = /backup/school/./1 > read only = false > use chroot = true > > I ran the following command (on the s

Trying to preserve UID and GID when backing up with rsync

2011-02-14 Thread Robert Crida
Hi all I am trying to use rsync as part of a backup solution for a machine with multiple users. The intention is to run rsyncd on a different server with typically different user IDs. I also intend to run rsync from the client as root and essentially back up the following: /etc/passwd /etc/sha