[KLUG Members] help with rsync

[Peter Buxton]

On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 01:34:10PM -0500, John Pesce wrote:

> I'm trying to setup rsync to backup the /warehouse directory on comA to a 
> local /warehouse. I have tried the following command from the man page as 
> root, but I get permission denied.  I believe I need to be root since the 
> files are owned by multiple users, don't I? What is the best way to do 
> this and not break security? 
> 
> rsync -avz --delete comA:/warehouse/ /warehouse


rsync -avz --delete [this runs as remote root@]comA:/warehouse/ /warehouse

Is root a valid remote user for your rsynch user?

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