> There are options for transferring ownership and perms
> (-owner and -perms), although I admit I haven't tried them.
> If they don't work right, but you know how things are
> supposed to look, you can always run chmod & chown
> afterward.
getfacl can dump an entire tree's permissions to a file --
both UNIX and Extended Attributes (EA) Access Control Lists
(ACLs). You could then rsync that file, and run it on the
other side. In
fact, that's how I deal with the fact I don't want another
system login in to SSH as root.
Basically:
cd /wherever
syncstamp="`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`"
getfacl -R . > .facl_${syncstamp}
rsync -ave "ssh" . reguser at otherserver
rm .facl_${syncstamp}
And then a root cronjob on another server basically looks for
.facl_* files periodically and runs:
cd /whereever
set -o noglob
for ifacl in .facl_*; do
setfacl --restore=${ifacl}
rm ${ifacl}
done
In fact, since Red Hat insists on not supporting XFS with its
xfsdump that maintains EAs, and Ext3's dump does nothing of
the sort (and I'm not a huge fan of star), I use getfacl to
store the original ACLs with my backup in a file included
with the backup.
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