I map a windows share to linux box by using smb
/bin/mount -t smbfs -o username=name,password=mypass
//windoze/data/mnt/data
and try to backup /home
rsync -av /home /mnt/data/
The problem is i can not preseve owner and group, every file is changed
to belong to root, i guess t
I am having a problem with rsync on a box. I can't figure out how to
fix the problem. The box is running on the REDHAT AS channel (using
RPM's I compiled from SRPMS) and the system is "virgin" RedHat RPM's.
It is completely up2date except for the fact that it is running an older
kernel (it has
Title: RH 8.0: Rsync problem
I am unable to rsync from a RH 7.2 machine to a RH 8.0 machine.
I CAN rsh as root from the 7.2 machine to the 8.0 machine.
I have added the 7.2 machine to /root/.rhosts (file perms = 0600) and also defined the hostname in /etc/hosts
/root/.rhosts