Can't get rsync preserving ownership but rdist6 does?

[Andrew Nelson]

Hi,

I have a central backup machine with a rsync daemon running with under
the user/group  of  root/wheel.  I then have a number of other FreeBSD
machines pushing files to it for backup which is working

On the client machines,   I use:
rsync -CavzHpog /etc/namedb/ backup at backups.domainname.com:/archive/namedb

All the files on the remote machine have the correct permissions but
are all owned by the 'backup' user.  I used to use rdist6 which would turn 
the
UID and GID into numbers where the users didn't exist on the local machine 
and it
would all preserce nicely.

My /usr/local/etc/rsyncd.conf  is below and rsync is started by root
with "/usr/local/bin/rsync --daemon"


I'd appreciate any help!
Thanks,
Andrew.


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# rsyncd conf

# User & Group for rsync to run as
uid = root
gid = wheel

# Use chroot with rsync
use chroot = yes
max connections = 20

auth users = backup
secrets file = /usr/local/etc/rsyncd.secrets


# log and pid file options
pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
log file = /var/log/rsync.log
syslog facility = local5

hosts allow = <my hostnames>
hosts deny = *

[dns]
path = /archive/namedb/
comment = Primary Name Server Backup
secrets file = /usr/local/etc/rsyncd.secrets
strict modes = true
read only = false

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