[Samba] rsync folder permissions

[steve]

On 23/07/12 13:41, Marcio Merlone wrote:
> Em 22-07-2012 05:13, steve escreveu:
>> I'm trying to rsync our filserver to a USB backup. When I first start,
>> all the folders are created with
>>  root:root
>> ownership whereas the actual owners are
>>  root:Domain Users
>> or
>>  root: one.of.our.groups
>>
>> Eventually, the groups show correctly, but not always. My question is,
>> when rsync creates the new directories, does it respect user and group
>> all the way along or must we wait for the end of the rsync to find out?
>
> Issue the command 'man rsync' and take a look what the -a switch does.
> It acts as if many other switches were issued. Take a look at each,
> specially -p.
>
> Good luck.
>
> --
> *Marcio Merlone*
Hi

Hi Marcio, hi everyone
Yes. I was missing the -a switch:
rsync -auzv source destination
works fine but I found that the owner and group are not synced until the 
last moment. Impatience perhaps.
Cheers,
Steve