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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 4 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x[-rw-r--r--] | support/mapfrom | 10 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x[-rw-r--r--] | support/mapto | 10 |
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@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ Changes since 3.0.4: - Added an "instant-rsyncd" script to the support directory, which makes it easy to configure a simple rsync daemon in the current directory. + - Added the "mapfrom" and "mapto" scripts to the support directory, which + makes it easier to do user/group mapping in a local transfer based on + passwd/group files from another machine. + DEVELOPER RELATED: - Added more conditional debug output. diff --git a/support/mapfrom b/support/mapfrom index 4e0b71d6..ca3b8173 100644..100755 --- a/support/mapfrom +++ b/support/mapfrom @@ -1,4 +1,14 @@ #!/usr/bin/perl +# This helper script makes it easy to use a passwd or group file to map +# values in a LOCAL transfer. For instance, if you mount a backup that +# does not have the same passwd setup as the local machine, you can do +# a copy FROM the backup area as follows and get the differing ID values +# mapped just like a remote transfer FROM the backed-up machine would do: +# +# rsync -av --usermap=`mapfrom /mnt/backup/etc/passwd` \ +# --groupmap=`mapfrom /mnt/backup/etc/group` \ +# /mnt/backup/some/src/ /some/dest/ + while (<>) { push @_, "$2:$1" if /^(\w+):[^:]+:(\d+)/; } diff --git a/support/mapto b/support/mapto index 8bafa100..a1dbe3c1 100644..100755 --- a/support/mapto +++ b/support/mapto @@ -1,4 +1,14 @@ #!/usr/bin/perl +# This helper script makes it easy to use a passwd or group file to map +# values in a LOCAL transfer. For instance, if you mount a backup that +# does not have the same passwd setup as the local machine, you can do +# a copy TO the backup area as follows and get the differing ID values +# mapped just like a remote transfer TO the backed-up machine would do: +# +# rsync -av --usermap=`mapto /mnt/backup/etc/passwd` \ +# --groupmap=`mapto /mnt/backup/etc/group` \ +# /some/src/ /mnt/backup/some/dest/ + while (<>) { push @_, "$1:$2" if /^(\w+):[^:]+:(\d+)/; } |