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Subject: Re: Rsync
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Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Use anonymous rsync? There's a section on rsyncd in the rsync(1)
> man page, but most of the meat is in the rsyncd.conf(5) man page.
> The downside is you'll lose information about user and group ownership
> of files.  Oh, and obviously be careful about limiting where people
> can access the rsyncd server from, or your precious data may go on
> an unplanned walkies...

I don't want to loose any user and group ownership of files. Would there 
be another solution without rsync then or does the 'forbidden root 
login' affect all backup solutions here?

thanks for sharing,
Jos