Backing up multiple user data

[Jack Mendez]

never said it could
only spoke about the fact that it does keep the permissions of the files 
that it transfers.
At 07:54 AM 9/28/2004, you wrote:
>Not exactly. rsync will do as you say, but only if those users also
>exist on the target system. It cannot create new user accounts, and
>shouldn't be able to, either.
>
>Now that I've strayed into 'shoulds,'  I suppose we could posit the
>notion of rsync for passwd and shadow, but this just too wacky because
>it's dangerous.
>Jack Mendez writes:
> > there are several ways to accomplish what you want to do, rsync has very
> > helpful documentation, I'd suggest reading the manpages for it however,
> > here are a few quick solutions
> > rsync -av will preserve all permissions on the destination  machine, and
> > you will need to make sure when transferring this back to use the same
> > switch
> > if you are backing up entire file systems and are special files you 
> need to
> > use the linkdest option so the files get transferred properly
> > additionally you can also backup remote file systems nfs smb etc, using
> > rsync but be careful about using permissions based transfers with this 
> data
> > because sometimes particularly with windows based smb mounts, the rsync is
> > unable to preserve owner.
> >
> > Jack
> > At 01:34 AM 9/28/2004, you wrote:
> > >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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