rsync over lan

[tyler <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>]

Hi,

With some help from the good people on this list, I got a simple home
network setup, and I'm now using it to backup my laptop to my desktop
using rsync. I have one question though - I'm backing up /etc, /home,
/opt, and parts of /usr and /var. I want to preserve ownership, but if I
do the backup from my user account as:

rsync -av --include-from=/home/tyler/rsync_includes /
  etch.mynetwork:/home/tyler/laptop

Then the ownerships all get set to tyler tyler, even when they are
originally root root. In order to preserve the ownerships, I have to run
the above command as root, which requires that I configure sshd on the
desktop to accept root logins. Even behind a NAT router, that doesn't
seem like a good idea. Am I missing something?

Thanks,

Tyler
 
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