[CentOS] rsync doesn't update directory ownership

Mark Schoonover schoon at amgt.com
Tue Jan 23 22:17:47 UTC 2007


Fajar Priyanto wrote:
>On Wednesday 24 January 2007 00:27, Mark Schoonover wrote:
>> Fajar,
>>
>> 	Your rsync command contains extraneous options. The -a actually is a
>> shortcut for -rlptogoD, so all you really need is -avz as options. If you
>> could provide an ls -la of the source and remote directories, that would
>> help tremendously. One thing that comes to mind is to be sure that
>> userA.userA has the same UID & GID on both servers. In my case, where I'm
>> rsyncing to a remote server and the UID/GID don't match, you'll just get
>> numeric IDs as owners and groups on the remote side. So, try eliminating
>> the duplicate options first, be sure UID/GID are the same on both
servers.
>> Let us know how it goes.
>>
>> HTH
>
>Hello Mark,
>Thank you very much for the correction. I will try it as soon as I get back
to 
>office in a few hours. 
>In the mean time, I want to confirm that:
>- yes, the users has the same uid/gid on both servers

Fajar,

	What version of rsync are you using on each machine??

Thanks!

Mark Schoonover 
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