<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 5:56 PM, L. V. Lammert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lvl@omnitec.net">lvl@omnitec.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:<br>
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> Is the backup running as root? By default NFS has a feature called "root<br>
> squashing" that changes the root userid to nobody. You have to add the<br>
> "norootsquash" parameter to the exports file on the NFS server to disable<br>
> it.<br>
><br>
</div>Thanks! I saw that, but that's only half the problem - rsync must preserve<br>
UID/GIDs on the target files - it seems that is not possible with a nfs<br>
mount? </blockquote><div><br>No, NFS should preserve UIDs/GIDs, unless the "all_squash" parameter got turned on somehow. It's supposed to be off by default though. You could add no_all_squash to the exports and see.<br>
</div></div><br>-- <br>Jeff Ollie<br>