[BBLISA] Help with backups

[Sean OMeara]

what are your samba mount options, and why samba vs nfs?

On 8/20/07, Scott Ehrlich <scott at mit.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Dan Ritter wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 09:05:30PM -0400, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> >> On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Dan Ritter wrote:
> >>> rsync and --exclude
> >>
> >> The --exclude options for rsync look similar to tar.   If I wanted to
> >> include a directory for exclusion, what would the proper command-line be
> >> for tar and rsync to exclude a directory?
> >
> > read the man page on ANCHORING INCLUDE/EXCLUDE PATTERNS, but
> > basically:
> >
> > rsync -av --exclude /mnt / remote:/destination/
> >
> > -dsr-
> >
> > --
> > Every time you give up a right, the terrorists win.
> >
> > http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference.
> >
>
> rsync is working well, except I get chown errors on certain
> files/folders, but the data does appear to be backing up fine..   I tried
> using -o -p -g but didn't matter.
>
> I'm running it as sudo.
>
> So how do I successfully preserve all ownership permissions and receive no
> errors during the backup?
>
> The backups are appearing as owned by me on the destination system, which
> happens to be samba-mounted (smb/cifs).   Is this rsync or samba-mount
> related?  I'm using the rsync included with the default install of CentOS
> 5.  yum updates are not possible on this system.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Scott
>
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