Backing up multiple user data

[Luke Davis]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Jack Mendez wrote:

> okay but we were talking about preserving the permissions of the data, user 
> accounts do not need to be on the system the files are going on too in order 
> for the right permissions to be on them, in fact, if its just about storing 
> the files elsewhere gid and all of that gets retained even of those id do not 
> exist on the system

Not with rsync, or the related tools, they don't.
Permissions, yes; ownership without identical remote users, no.