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Reformed 12-13-2003 03:44 PM
rsync, users, and groups
 
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.


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