On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Carl Brewer wrote:
> so --archive will overwrite permissions on files that it's not replacing?
>
Yes, but you need to be very sure that it doesn't overwrite changed files
that you wanted to keep. For safety, you can use --backup along with
--backup-dir and check
On 15/05/2013 11:26 AM, Kevin Korb wrote:
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Yes, it will change the permissions and ownerships even if it doesn't
touch the data.
Thank you
Carl
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Yes, it will change the permissions and ownerships even if it doesn't
touch the data.
On 05/14/13 21:09, Carl Brewer wrote:
> On 15/05/2013 10:57 AM, Kevin Korb wrote:
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>> OK, since your timestamps a
On 15/05/2013 10:57 AM, Kevin Korb wrote:
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OK, since your timestamps are all a mess you have 2 choices...
1. Assume that all files on one system are correct and rsync --archive
from it to the other. Rsync will go through all the data but it will
onl
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OK, since your timestamps are all a mess you have 2 choices...
1. Assume that all files on one system are correct and rsync --archive
from it to the other. Rsync will go through all the data but it will
only actually transfer the differences. It wil
On 15/05/2013 10:38 AM, Kevin Korb wrote:
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If the timestamps are the same then rsync with -a should just fix the
ownerships and permissions.
That doesn't seem to deal with older files though, which is most of
them, at least as far as I can tell. M
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If the timestamps are the same then rsync with -a should just fix the
ownerships and permissions.
If the timestamps are not the same then you could do it with getfacl
and setfacl as they can use a text file as an intermediary however
your next questio
G'day,
I'm in the process of fixing a long broken rsync backup on a couple of
servers. The old system rsync'd a Linux (CentOS 5) server onto a
Opensolaris/OpenIndiana server but didn't worry about ownership or
permissions, across an expensive WAN link. All the ownerships and
permissions ar
