Backing up multiple user data

[Janina Sajka]

You don't want to copy passwd/shadow, because there may be different
system accounts. You want to diff them and strip out any resulting
system accounts, then cat >> the diff to the end of the target files.

That works like a charm. I do it all the time.

Igor Gueths writes:
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> How much of a backup of the system do you want to keep on the server? Also, are you intending that users are going to use the backups or something? Bc what you could do in that case, is copy 
> the old passwd/shadow files from the machine in question to the backup server...And of course do it using something like scp. And then use tar/rsync to preserve the owner/permissions. Again, I 
> can't be more helpful since I am not sure exactly what you are trying to do with the backups. HTH
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 12:34:49AM -0500, Luke Davis 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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