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Roger Creasy
Asked: 2016-09-03 05:48:35 +0800 CST

rsync --chown works for group, but not owner

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I am trying to push data from one server to another using rsync. I need to set the owner and permissions on the remote server. Here is my rsync:

rsync --chown=process:sambausers --chmod=D770,F770 -rptlvog /home/cloudserv/test.txt cloudserv@xx.xx.xx.xx:/Drive_D/docs/temp

All works, except the owner is not set - owner is set to cloudserv, which is the user rsync is sshing as. Can anyone tell me what I am misisng?

linux rsync

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You are not root on the server, so you can't change the owner. You need to connect with root@xx.xx.xx.xx

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