[K12OSN] Simple RSYNC question

[Rich McCue]

I'm sure I'm just missing a setting or something, but when I rsync data from one server to another all the files on the destination server are owned by the user that ran rsync.

For example I have a server with a backup tape attached to it, and I run rsync from that machine to two other servers to get their data to the backup server. This works great, except for the file ownership thing... everything is owned by root after it gets to the backup server.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Rich

-----Original Message-----
From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jim Kronebusch
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 6:29 AM
To: Support list for opensource software in schools.
Subject: RE: [K12OSN] Simple RSYNC question

> One trick is to add -n to the options which will make rsync
> not really do anything, but if you are also using -v it will show
> you what would happen in a real run.   If everything looks
> reasonable, then run it again without the -n to really do it.
> When I build new servers I usually set the new one up with a
> different name/ip address and rsync most stuff over ahead of
> the switch and check that things generally work.  Then at the
> last minute I shut down services on the old server, do a
> final rsync of user data like /home and /var/spool/mail with
> the --delete option on.  This goes quickly unless there are a
> lot of changes. Then I change the names and IP numbers on
> both servers and reboot so in a few minutes more than a
> reboot, the new box takes over.

Thanks for the extra tips Les.  I might give it a go close of business
today.  Keeping my fingers crossed :-)

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