Backing up multiple user data

[Luke Davis]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Janina Sajka 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.

Right, which is what spauned the question, and why Jack's solution won't 
work.  If you deal with 50-150 users, and if the backup target machine is 
not only used for this purpose (backing up this one machine, or one 
userspace of a single network), making all of those users, becomes a 
logistical nightmare, and difficult for other reasons.