Re: File permissions

[John H. <jo...@dr...>]

On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 01:58:47PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> John Hedges wrote:
> >Hi Sanchar
> http://www.shemesh.biz/sun.html
> Difficult name, I know :-)

Sorry Shachar - must read more carefully.

> >>Aside from performing tar to stdout, and piping that to rsyncrypto, I'm
> >>afraid I know of no workaround yet :-(
> >
> >This looks promising. Tarring whole directories before rsyncrypto would
> >work well as long as tar is consistent with respect to the ordering of
> >files within the archive. I'll give it a go.
> >
> Even if file ordering does change, both rsync and rsyncrypto are
> supposed to handle this fairly gracefully.

Thats good to know. I've tried quick tests on /etc and /var/log with
good results.

Thanks for the advice.

John