Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

Sherin A sherinmon at gmail.com
Wed Aug 14 13:20:03 MDT 2013







On Wednesday 14 August 2013 11:04 PM, Kevin Korb wrote:
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> The point of --fake-super is that when you restore the file with
> - --fake-super it will restore with the original ownership.  Of course
> that means that the restore has to be run with super privs on the
> target and --fake-super on the source.

  This doesn't work on remote stores . It doesn't restore the ownerships.




On Wednesday 14 August 2013 11:04 PM, Kevin Korb wrote:
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> The point of --fake-super is that when you restore the file with
> - --fake-super it will restore with the original ownership.  Of course
> that means that the restore has to be run with super privs on the
> target and --fake-super on the source.
>
> On 08/14/13 13:30, Sherin A wrote:
>> On Wednesday 14 August 2013 10:25 PM, Kevin Korb wrote:
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>>> As has been pointed out to you your problem is not hard links.
>>> Your problem is the indiscriminate use of a root operation (a
>>> chown) during the restoration process.
>>>
>>> You should be solving this by either: A) backing up and restoring
>>> the original owner of the files (directly or via --fake-super)
>> This won't work ,
>>
>> root at source [~]# id dom2inho uid=507(dom2inho) gid=508(dom2inho)
>> groups=508(dom2inho) root at source[~]# rsync  -avp -e 'ssh '
>> --fake-super /home/dom2inho backup at 10.0.0.10:/home/backup/ In
>> storage server , [root at dest dom2inho]# id backup uid=505(backup)
>> gid=506(backup) groups=506(backup) [root at dest dom2inho]# pwd
>> /home/backup/dom2inho [root at dest dom2inho]# ll -d
>> /home/backup/dom2inho/shadow --w------- 1 backup backup 1344 Aug 13
>> 12:52 /home/backup/dom2inho/shadow   => not preserving  uids or
>> gids [root at da dom2inho]#
>>
>> If I am doing something wrong please let  me know.
>>
>>
>>> B) backing up each user's files and only their files.
>> I don't see an option in the rsync man to copy only  each users
>> files , can  you please point me to  that option
>>
>>
>> Thanking you for your valuable time and help .
>>
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