rsync backup and quota

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Due to high load during backup I excluded domain dir form DA backup and configured rsync to backup those dirs in seperate process. Backup is done on /home/admin account with rsync -av option (archive to preserve ownership). But there is one problem - backup files with ownership increase users quota even if they are stored on /home/admin folder.

How can I preserve ownership and dont increase users quota by doig backup of their files? Can I exclude backup folder from quota?

 

[zEitEr]

How can I preserve ownership and dont increase users quota by doig backup of their files? Can I exclude backup folder from quota?

Either move it to a partition mounted without quota support, or chown the rsync copies... (of course the second is a bad idea)...

 

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That was also my conclusion. If You DONT want to preserve ower and group of the destination files You should use

rsync -rlptDv

instead of rsync -av

For me it's little bit problematic to create new partition without quota. And because I rsync only domains folder so in case of mass recovery I can copy domains backup to home directory and then run

cd /home
for i in `ls`; do { chown -R $i:$i $i/domains; }; done;

 

[scsi]

-a, --archive archive mode; equals -rlptgoD

 

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-a, --archive archive mode; equals -rlptgoD

Yes, that is correct, so if you don't want group (g option) and owner (o option) to be preserved You should use -rlptD instead of -a