Re: Help with rsync

I currently do this to backup a remote server.  Here is the command I use:

/share/hdd/conf/opt/bin/rsync -urpLoge ssh remote.host.com:/.
/share/hdd/data/mirror/.

To do this via a cron job you must setup cronlogger.  See:

http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/EnableLoggingInCron

Jeff




On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 17:13:10 -0800, Josh Parsons 
<jbparsons-ZnEz5tD0I2KVc3sceRu5cw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 21:55 +0000, mlsmith59 wrote:
> 
> >  Rsync workes but I can't get it to preserve
> > owner/group.  The receiving machine always ends up with
> > nobody/nobody.
> 
> As you may know, rsync can run in two modes: as a server on a dedicated
> TCP port (which is what you are doing), or by using some rsh/ssh-like
> remote shell protocol as a transport layer.  To get the behavior you
> want, you need to be using ssh (or rsh, but that is a very bad idea) as
> the transport for rsync.
> 
> An rsync server will always create files with the uid it is running as,
> or if it is root, the uid set in rsyncd.conf (which defaults to nobody).
> The reason for this is obvious when you think about it: anyone can
> connect to an rsync server and ask to upload a file owned by root, or
> even ask for it to be owned by root, setuid and world-executable. If
> this was allowed, it would subvert the normal permissions mechanism on
> the system running rsync.
> 
> Even allowing write access at all via an rsync server is unsafe, as it
> exposes your machine to DoS attacks aimed at consuming all disk space
> available to the rsync server.
> 
> In short, disable your rsync server and set up openssh instead.
> 
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