Can you pass a chown command during an rsync call?

Question

Title says it all really.

I see that you can preserve owner:group but is it possible to change the owner:group on all files on the remote after they've been synced?

Or can you somehow pipe an extra command?

rsync -vzrP --delete ~/Sites/website-name/ [email protected]:/home/website-name/public_html/ | chown website-name:websites-group *

Sorry, my rsync/bash knowledge is pretty limited.

Answer 1

Yes, rsync provides the --usermap and --groupmap options to allow you to customise how these are mapped at the remote end.

For your particular use case, where all files are to be mapped to the same user/group combo, you can use the --chown option, which is a shortcut for the above.

Answer 2

In addition to Chris's answer, you can also edit your /etc/rsyncd.conf and include the uid and gid you want the files to get in the relevant rsync folder.

Example:

[hadoop_out]
        comment =  hadoop_out
        path = /mass1/mt_data/hadoop_out
        read only = no
        list = yes
        uid = 26
        gid = 26
        auth users = postgres
        secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
        hosts allow = 10.11.20.61

That way, the files will be sync'ed and saved with uid and gid 26 of user postgres so you will not have to provide this info in the command you run.