Hi Steffen! On Sat, 01 Sep 2001, Steffen Dettmer wrote:
- teo@gecadsoftware.com wrote on Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 01:21 +0300:
I am using rsync -e ssh w/ no problem so far. what do you mean about keeping ownership?
Well, if you rsync i.e. /home, you need to preserve the attributes on restore. That means, /home/steffen has still to be owned by steffen after restore operation. If you have serveral hundert users, it's not easy to fix if not done automatically.
The permissions are important, too, imagine a world-writeable ~/.ssh or a not world-readble ~/public_html.
but this is easily achived with --archive option. as I understand it, the issue is when restoring from backups, and given that that's a root task, I see no problems with it. when you backup with rsync, use -a to preserve ownership and rights, recreate links and stuff [just like tar], and when you restore, you have them right anyways in the archive, so I see no problems at all. -- teodor