Trying to preserve UID and GID when backing up with rsync

[Robert Crida]

Awesome, thanks for the feedback. I had actually managed to work it out in the meantime...

On 14 Feb 2011, at 3:54 PM, Paul Slootman wrote:

> On Mon 14 Feb 2011, Robert Crida wrote:
> 
>> I am in early prototyping phase now and have the following rsyncd.conf file:
>> max connections = 4
>> 
>> [school10000]
>>        path = /backup/school/./10000
>>        read only = false
>>        use chroot = true
>> 
>> I ran the following command (on the same machine as the server):
>> rsync -az ./.viminfo fw.school10000::school10000
>> 
>> The result on the server is:
>> root at fw.school10000:/etc# ls -nal /backup/school/10000/
>> total 12
>> drwxrwxrwx 2     0     0 4096 2011-02-14 14:08 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 3     0     0 4096 2011-02-14 11:30 ..
>> -rw------- 1 65534 65534  590 2011-02-14 10:52 .viminfo
> 
> Check the manual page for rsyncd.conf; you'll see that the default uid
> under which rsyncd runs for such modules is "nobody", which generally
> equates to 65534.
> Add a line "uid = 0" to enable the daemon to correctly set the owner and
> groups.
> 
> 
> Paul
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Robert Crida
rcrida at clue.co.za