Can't get rsync preserving ownership but rdist6 does?
Rasmus Brogger
Rasmus.Brogger at uni-c.dk
Wed Aug 25 05:07:41 PDT 2004
Andrew Nelson wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> --------------
> # 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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rsync has a --numeric-id switch.
I think this is what you're looking for.
/rhb
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