On Wednesday 24 January 2007 13:33, Mark Schoonover wrote: > Todd Cary wrote: > > Thanks to the encouragement of some people on this list, I am using > > rsync to synchronize two servers: one is a backup to the other in case > > the primary one fails. By hand, I inserted the names of the users on > > the primary server into the backup server. So, now all works well. > > > > /usr/bin/rsync -av -e ssh /home/ 192.168.0.22:/home/ > > > > My question is what would happen if the users were not on the backup > > They just get set to the UID/GID of the source server. I've used rsync to backup lots of data from a web server at an ISP. I want to make it available read-only to certain staff via SMB, but ran into posix permissions problems. Is there a way to simultaneously mount a partition without ownership properties, EG: as if it were a FAT partition? Also, if you mount the same filesystem twice, is there any problem with that? -Ben -- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978