Preserving ownership during rsync

[Chern Jian Leaw]

Is there way which rsync could preserve the ownership of filesystems transferred between remote sites, having different NIS servers? Owners of a filesystem exists on both remote sites, and have different uid, and possibly the same or different uname on both sites.

If there is an option, could someone show it to me, please?

[steven Burgess_2]

Chern

I have never used rsync,but have found the following webpage

http://rsync.samba.org

Have a look , it has an FAQ area , plus documentation

Regards

Steve

[Chern Jian Leaw]

Steve,
Thanks.

[Brian Markus]

I used RDIST to do system syncs on a few of my systems. With the -M option , it will Check ownership/groups and make sure they are the same.

I have a .rdistfile on each host with the parm's and files/dirs I want synced, then in cron I have the times I want it to sync.

Here's a modified version of what I use. It emails the sync results. :)

.rdistfile
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DIR = ( /dir_to_sync )
USERS = ( bmarkus@rcoe.k12.ca.us )
${DIR} -> ${HOSTS}
install -R;
notify ${USERS};
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Here's what I threw in cron
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0,15,30,45 * * * * /usr/bin/rdist -f ~userdir/.rdistfile 2>&1




Hope this helps

Brian.