On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 3:56 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote: > Thanks! I saw that, but that's only half the problem - rsync must preserve > UID/GIDs on the target files - it seems that is not possible with a nfs > mount? What's the underlying filesystem on the "NAS box"? Does that support the permissions you're trying to set? Some (eg VFAT) don't.