backup XP on Linux using rsync over ssh: permissions problems

[Jason Pyeron]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: H.S.
> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 13:15
> 
> Greg Chicares wrote:
> > On 2009-06-10 03:36Z, H.S. wrote:
> >> rsync --delete --modify-window=10  --force -Rvaue ssh
> >>     --exclude-from=$EXCLUDESFILE --progress \
> >>     xp-box:"/cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/user1 
> >> /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/user2" 
/mnt/backups/xp-daily-00;
> > 
> > Does '-p' ('--perms') help with the permissions problems?
> > 
> 
> This flag "preserve permissions". The permissions are alright 
> currently.
> The problem is that a user on XP box ssh'es to the Debian box 
> (and becomes a Debian user) and then fails to browse the 
> backups of the XP box which are saved on the Debian box 
> because the XP backups' uid and gids do not match with Debian users'.
> 

What you have is not a problem, but by design.

Unless you make the user/group ids match on both machines, you will either need
to strip the perms or access the files by root or equivalent.



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