[BBLISA] Help with backups

[Scott Ehrlich]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Sean OMeara wrote:

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

mount //remote-host/shared_dir /mnt/local_dir  [samba server is RHEL5 
out-of-box install, enabled and configured via RH's included GUI]

samba simply because it is a fast and easy remote mount option for me, 
temporarily, until I engineer a single sign-on system from the server.

Scott

>
> 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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