tape backup from remote

[john at day-light.com (John Brooks)]

use the "--numeric-ids" switch

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John Brooks
john_(_at_)_day-light_(_dot_)_com 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-isp_(_at_)_freebsd_(_dot_)_org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-isp_(_at_)_freebsd_(_dot_)_org]On Behalf Of Sean Ellis
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 12:43 AM
To: Chris Shenton
Cc: freebsd-isp_(_at_)_freebsd_(_dot_)_org; Bob Martin; Christoph Sold
Subject: Re: tape backup from remote


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I copied a directory tree last night using -avz as switches, no daemon
running; the files lost their ownership in the copying. I've been
searching and doing some experimenting. Running rsync as a daemon on the
backup server with uid = root in the rsyncd.conf seems to preserve the
ownership. Is there a better way of achieving this? Most of the users
and groups on the source machine don't exist on the destination machine.

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Sean