Backing up multiple user data

[Janina Sajka]

Good morning, Luke,

Isn't this another job for tar? I see a -p for preserve permissions, as
well as a --same-owner switch.

It would seem that exactly this situation would have been a common user
requirement historically for tar.

Luke Davis writes:
> If rsync is used to backup data for multiple users, on to a system whereon 
> the recipient for the files, is a single user, rsync will, of course, set 
> the user and group of all files, to the recipient user.
> 
> If dealing with a large number of users, it is less than ideal, to create 
> all of the users on the target backup server.
> 
> Is there any way to do such backups, in the rsync method, while still 
> preserving ownership data, but without creating all of the users involved? 
> Some sort of meta ownership data.
> 
> If not, what might be another method of doing this?
> 
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