Hi, Perhaps you could have a look at: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rsync-backup/ br, Roman * teo@gecadsoftware.com wrote on Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 18:43 +0300:

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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.

Yep, that's it. root task on both sides!

when you backup with rsync, use -a to preserve ownership and rights, recreate links

BTW, I get often errors when rsync tries to create symlinks: file already exists... oki, Steffen -- Dieses Schreiben wurde maschinell erstellt, es trägt daher weder Unterschrift noch Siegel. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-security-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-security-help@suse.com