RSYNC illin'

[bcoffin]

I have a couple of installations of a small app (that has a lot of pages, unfortunately) and am looking into rsync to auto-sync all changed files to these boxes. It's working great, using the following:

 

rsync -rptgovz --timeout=300 -e ssh /cygdrive/path/to/local/files/ rsyncuser@111.222.333.444:/home/path/to/one/installation

 

And it's checking the differences, uploading newer files, and everything it's supposed to be doing on that front.

 

However, it's changing all my perms to 0755. And changing all of my user:groups to 401:402 for some reason.

Has anybody experienced this? The g and o flags are supposed to retain group and owner attributes. The p flag is supposed to retain the perms. I'm using v2.6.3 and setting (SET CYGWIN=nontsec).

 

Thanks in advance.

[trq]

Do the same users / groups exist on the remote machine?

[bcoffin]

Well the group is :nobody, which is what rhel4 uses for web users/php.

I know I shouldn't be, but I'm connecting with rsync as root.

I've changed this to rsyncuser (a member of nobody) with the same results.

[bcoffin]

And since rsync *is* changing the ownership on the files, I know that it has permissions to do so.

It's just not changing them to the correct user/group.

[derwert]

It goes by the uid and gid not by the username and groupname.

 

Make sure your uid and gid match up on both boxes.

 

You mention CYGWIN; what are you using it for in this scenario?