Re: rsync and chown

2006-02-09 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Edward Speyer wrote: Hi! I'm stuck trying to find a nice way to allow rsync / rdiff-backup enough permissions to keep ownership information intact at the backup-receiving end. I /could/ run as root on the backup-reciever, but it'd be nice if there was a less sledge-hammer approach to the chown

Re: rsync and chown

2006-02-08 Thread Edward Speyer
These are all great suggestions! My current root-use-avoidance plans were to tar up each filesystem locally into a tarball owned by some special "backup" user, then rsync the tarball to another machine (rather than rsyncing the filesystem itself). The Mike Rubel page that Clive Menzies mentioned

Re: rsync and chown

2006-02-08 Thread David Kirchner
On 2/8/06, Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using rsnapshot, which uses rsync over ssh, and "pull" backups to > the backup server running as root, but I connect to the backup machines > as an ordinary user. I use keychain to help automate ssh-agent for > authentication, so I need to con

Re: rsync and chown

2006-02-08 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:00:50PM +, Edward Speyer wrote: > Hi! > > I'm stuck trying to find a nice way to allow rsync / rdiff-backup enough > permissions to keep ownership information intact at the backup-receiving > end. > > I /could/ run as root on the backup-reciever, but it'd be nice if

Re: rsync and chown

2006-02-08 Thread Clive Menzies
On (08/02/06 21:00), Edward Speyer wrote: > I'm stuck trying to find a nice way to allow rsync / rdiff-backup enough > permissions to keep ownership information intact at the backup-receiving > end. > > I /could/ run as root on the backup-reciever, but it'd be nice if there > was a less sledge-ham