[Samba] rsnapshots/rsync 2 shares

[Rowland penny]

On 09/08/2019 08:23, Stefan G. Weichinger via samba wrote:
> Slightly OT maybe:
>
> at a customer we run the main data share on the samba file server
> (access defined via Windows ACLs) ... so far no surprise ;-)
>
> then we let a 2nd server pull snapshots via rsnapshot (you know:
> https://rsnapshot.org/) and provide the resulting tree of snapshots via
> samba again: read-only, only for some admin users
>
> So far OK, runs for years (although it gets slower, other topic)
>
> Now we notice issues with accessing snapshots, the ACLs don't get synced
> correctly.
>
> I fiddle with the rsync options now.
>
> Currently testing "-aAX" (and waiting for the run to finish).
>
> Does anyone else do something similar?
>
> I also consider simply using "--chown" here: forget the ACLs in the
> snapshot, just provide them for the admins to pick files here and there.
>
> And I wonder if "--numeric-ids" is good in this case.
>
> hints welcome
>
Are you using the winbind 'ad' backend on all Unix domain members ?

Rowland