ReaR - loss of ownership during non-root user@host transport to ReaR server

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When /etc/rear/local.conf is configured to use RSYNC, with the suggested user@host syntax, the files and directories written to the storage ReaR server will all be owned by the non-root "rear" user, rather than the original owner.
  • How do we ensure that UID:GID and ACLs are preserved when using "user@host" with RSYNC?
  • Backup result
# cd /pkgs/rear_storage/srv/backup/etc
# ls -l
total 1796
drwxr-xr-x.  3 rear rear     96 Oct  9 18:26 abrt
drwxr-xr-x.  4 rear rear     35 Oct  9 18:27 acpi
-rw-r--r--.  1 rear rear     44 Jan  4 10:03 adjtime
-rw-r--r--.  1 rear rear   1512 Jan 12  2010 aliases
-rw-r--r--.  1 rear rear  12288 Oct  9 18:45 aliases.db
drwxr-xr-x.  2 rear rear     26 Oct  9 18:28 alsa
drwxr-xr-x.  2 rear rear   4096 Jan  4 10:01 alternatives
-rw-------.  1 rear rear    541 Jul 22  2016 anacrontab
-rw-r--r--.  1 rear rear    148 Jan 12  2016 asound.conf
-rw-r--r--.  1 rear rear      1 Oct 18  2016 at.deny
drwxr-x---.  3 rear rear     43 Oct  9 18:25 audisp
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  • After restoring from this backup the system will fail to boot.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Rear
  • ext3/ext4

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