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Why does rsync not copy the other execute bit when copying to an sshfs mount?
I have a mounted sshfs drive at /mnt/backup_datascrape with permission rwxrwxr-x. I am trying to copy a directory foo with permission rwxrwxr-x to that mount using rsync while preserving the ...
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Operation not permitted when writing in sshfs
I use image-backup to backup my Rpi. I backup directly on an FTP server and I do so via sshfs.
This is how I connect in my /etc/fstab:
MYUSERNAME@MYSERVER:/home/myuser/rpi_backup /mnt/MYSERVER fuse....
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how to backup remote location containing hard links, without rsync
I want to backup backintime-data from an internet-facing, remote machine running debian 11 (src). That is the hardlinks-part from the title.
I want to back it up to a (very dumb) NAS (dest) in the ...
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How to sync two disks - continually?
I have to HDD drives on two different servers that I need to sync regularly. Until now, I've been using rsync over sshfs, first from one to the other, then from the other to the first, but this method ...
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Mount sshfs and elevate priviliges (sudo)
I mount a remote directory using sshfs:
sshfs myuser@myserver:/ /path/to/mountpoint
This works just fine.
But I need to acces directories on myserver that are only accessible by root.
root login is ...
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Is there some program that can copy sparse file (/var/log/lastlog) over ssh as fast as cp (on local pc)?
I'm backing ip my server via rsync over ssh but /var/log/lastlog file is 1.2G (it takes only 24K on the hdd).
On a local machine cp can copy it for no time (a few ms) but rsync requires reading the ...
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Differences between rsync on remote and rsync local on mounted sshfs?
Is there any difference if I run rsync with remote host (ssh://) as source/destination or use local path to share mounted directory via sshfs?
Could there be differences be with regards to security ...
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How to make ssh account capabele to only sshfs and rsync?
I'd like to make ssh account that is capable of doing two things:
mounting (can be one) directory via sshfs
performing backup&recovery of his/her desired directories using rsync
I would love to ...
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Fastest file copying within sshfs directory (rsync?)
I have a directory on a remote server remote1, mounted via sshfs. I am installing new versions of some of the files in the remote directory, which are quite large (~50M).
I am currently using
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How do I use my own local text editor to modify system (requires root to save) files on a remote system?
I've recently fallen in love with github's Atom text editor, and I enjoy using it for all my local coding and configuration.
I started to maintain a Nagios installation for several dozen servers and ...
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creating a device image for a network location
I have a dedicated Ubuntu server with hetzner.de. hetzner also provides a separate backup space accessible via samba/ftp/sftp/scp.
In their support document about backups, the following line is ...
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