rsync, users, and groups

Reformed · 12-13-2003, 03:44 PM

I'm using rsync with option "-a" and I noticed that on my local machine, permissions are preserved, but users and groups are not. My local system seems to override the remote files users and groups. Isn't option "-a" supposed to preserver these?

david_ross · 12-13-2003, 04:29 PM

It will preserve the UID and GID, therefore they will need to be consistent between systems.

Reformed · 12-13-2003, 04:50 PM

So if I upload the files that I rsync'd back to the original server, The perms will not be prevserved unless both machies have the same users and groups?

david_ross · 12-13-2003, 08:00 PM

They would be preserved if they were brought back to your server.

Reformed · 12-13-2003, 08:18 PM

Cool. Thanks.