rsync using sudo.

[gary artim]

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:42 AM, gary artim <gartim at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Gordon Messmer <yinyang at eburg.com> wrote:
>> gary artim wrote:
>>>
>>> The problem: the local files get permission denied on root owned files
>>> subdirs. If I add
>>> sudo /usr/bin/rsync --stats -ae "ssh" --rsync-path="sudo
>>> /usr/bin/rsync" /my  rsync at host1:/backup/my
>>>
>>> I get prompted for a ssh passwd. Has anyone solved or done this?
>>
>> sudo rsync --stat -ae "ssh -i </path/to/id_rsa>" \
>>        --rsync-path="sudo /usr/bin/rsync" \
>>        /my/ rsync at host1:/backup/my/
>>
>>
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> Will try and report back shortly...Gary
>

This worked perfecto! thanks much for everyones help!
-- Gary