On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 09:45:05PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I'm trying to use rsync to back up from one computer to another. > Recently I had used NIS so all my systems had the same user on them so > there was never a permission issue. Now I'm trying to back up from my > iMac to my Debian server. I can't put the iMac on NIS (or probably > could, but it would NOT be fun to set up, I'm sure). Similar situation but with ldap :) > > In the past I could use: > > rsync -av server::Writing /data/Writing > > And all my writing would be backed up from the local /data/writing to > the server. Now that I'm not using NIS, I use: > > rsync -av me@server::Writing /data/Writing > > I get errors when I do that, so after some tinkering, I got some > directories to back up and I see that rsync is saving the files as > "nobody:nogroup" or with the user number 65534. > > My understanding of rsync is that if I use "name@system::Service" that > it logs into that server using the specified username, but since rsync > is saving files as "nobody," then that's not happening. I do have the > systems set up so the server does not allow password logins via ssh and > the guest (the iMac) is known user with the rsa id on the server and when > I want to ssh to the server, just "ssh server" will get me logged in. > > What do I need to do to tell rsync on the host system (the server) to > use the specified user name? There has already been an answer giving before, but I would suggested a different approach. on the linux server have something like /exports/imac/backups do chown 0.0 /exports/imac ; chmod u=rwx,go= /exports/imac/, just to stop prying eyes then export /exports/imac/backups, mount this from the imac and rsync locally on the imac, it will preserve the uid,gid Alex > > Thanks for any help on this! > > > Hal > > > > -- This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Possibly the gods exist, and possibly they do not. So why not believe in them in any case? If it's all true you'll go to a lovely place when you die, and if it isn't then you've lost nothing, right?" When he died he woke up in a circle of gods holding nasty-looking sticks and one of them said, "We're going to show you what we think of Mr Clever Dick in these parts..." (Hogfather)
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