Can't get rsync preserving ownership but rdist6 does?

From: Andrew Nelson (andrew__nelson_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/25/04

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    To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:09:27 +1000

    Hi,

    I have a central backup machine with a rsync daemon running with under
    the user/group of root/wheel. I then have a number of other FreeBSD
    machines pushing files to it for backup which is working

    On the client machines, I use:
    rsync -CavzHpog /etc/namedb/ backup@backups.domainname.com:/archive/namedb

    All the files on the remote machine have the correct permissions but
    are all owned by the 'backup' user. I used to use rdist6 which would turn
    the
    UID and GID into numbers where the users didn't exist on the local machine
    and it
    would all preserce nicely.

    My /usr/local/etc/rsyncd.conf is below and rsync is started by root
    with "/usr/local/bin/rsync --daemon"

    I'd appreciate any help!
    Thanks,
    Andrew.

    --------------
    # rsyncd conf

    # User & Group for rsync to run as
    uid = root
    gid = wheel

    # Use chroot with rsync
    use chroot = yes
    max connections = 20

    auth users = backup
    secrets file = /usr/local/etc/rsyncd.secrets

    # log and pid file options
    pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
    log file = /var/log/rsync.log
    syslog facility = local5

    hosts allow = <my hostnames>
    hosts deny = *

    [dns]
    path = /archive/namedb/
    comment = Primary Name Server Backup
    secrets file = /usr/local/etc/rsyncd.secrets
    strict modes = true
    read only = false

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