rsync - Jan 2004 - Ownership lost: linux -> windows -> linux

Hi,

I have a problem of loss of file ownership with rsync.
For some odd reasons, I have to use a windows machine
as rsync server, and to backup/restore a filesystem
from/to a linux client.

All files in my linux filesystem are owned by root,
with gid root.
If I save the files onto the windows rsync server from
linux using rsync, and then restore them back to
linux, the ownership for all files changes, becoming
uid=400, gid=401.

All other file attributes are correctly preserved,
including read/write permissions and even setuid bits.

Could you help me solving this problem?

On windows I'm using cwRsync 1.1.0 on a 2003 server.
Here is my rsyncd.conf on windows:
------- start of rsyncd.conf

use chroot = false
strict modes = false
hosts allow = *
log file = rsyncd.log
pid file = rsyncd.pid

[myalias]
path = /cygdrive/c/cwrsync/data/mydir
read only = false
transfer logging = yes

------- end of rsyncd.conf

On linux I'm using rsync 2.5.6, launching it with this
syntax:
/usr/local/bin/rsync -a -v -c --progress --stats 
rsync://<IPADDRESS>/<ALIAS> <LOCALDIR>


Thank you for any help.
--
Pier Paolo Glave


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Hi,

I want to make sure that cwRsync is NOT a separate product/solution or 
whatever. It is simply a packaging of rsync on cygwin to make 
deployment/installation easier. cwRsync is a minimalist environment and does 
not support keeping ownership information between transfers.

You should go for a full blown cygwin environment and use CYGWIN=ntsec if 
you really find out what support you can expect. I suspect that you may have 
a limited success, since Cygwin is a Linux emulation layer on Windows and 
Windows with NTFS filesystem has a quite complicated ACL system.

Rgrds Tev

cwRsync maintainer




---------- Original Message -----------
From: Pier Paolo Glave <glavepp@yahoo.com>
To: rsync@lists.samba.org
Sent: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 08:06:06 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Ownership lost: linux -> windows -> linux
> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem of loss of file ownership with rsync.
> For some odd reasons, I have to use a windows machine
> as rsync server, and to backup/restore a filesystem
> from/to a linux client.
> 
> All files in my linux filesystem are owned by root,
> with gid root.
> If I save the files onto the windows rsync server from
> linux using rsync, and then restore them back to
> linux, the ownership for all files changes, becoming
> uid=400, gid=401.
> 
> All other file attributes are correctly preserved,
> including read/write permissions and even setuid bits.
> 
> Could you help me solving this problem?
> 
> On windows I'm using cwRsync 1.1.0 on a 2003 server.
> Here is my rsyncd.conf on windows:
> ------- start of rsyncd.conf
> 
> use chroot = false
> strict modes = false
> hosts allow = *
> log file = rsyncd.log
> pid file = rsyncd.pid
> 
> [myalias]
> path = /cygdrive/c/cwrsync/data/mydir
> read only = false
> transfer logging = yes
> 
> ------- end of rsyncd.conf
> 
> On linux I'm using rsync 2.5.6, launching it with this
> syntax:
> /usr/local/bin/rsync -a -v -c --progress --stats
> rsync://<IPADDRESS>/<ALIAS> <LOCALDIR>
> 
> Thank you for any help.
> --
> Pier Paolo Glave
> 
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