[TriLUG] Re: Rsync

[Lance A. Brown]

> Another work around that just came to mind, is to create an apache user 
> and group on the destination machine, and give them the same UID / GID 
> as the nobody : <whatever> - then rsync might inadvertently "do the 
> right thing".  Please test, I am not certain if that'll actually do what 
> it sounds like it should.  :)

Yes, this will work.  rsync translates uid/gid numbers based on 
userid/group when moving data between computers.  If you create an 
apache user/group on the destination machine with the same uid/gid as 
user:nobody than rsync will make things right.

I've used this to move data between servers and maintain proper ownership.

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