Re: rsync time machine backup permissions

Time Machine will enable ownership on the drive the first time it starts up. The first thing it does when it creates the backup directory is to enable ownership on the drive. I've seen this happen repeatedly (it's actually the easiest way I know of to enable ownership on drive). On 2018-04-03,

Re: rsync time machine backup permissions

On 2018-03-19, at 3:22 AM, Andre Althoff via rsync wrote: > Dear rsync users, > > I'm trying to copy my Time Machine Backup from my old USB hard drive to a new > one. I got error messages, because rsync don't create group and other > permissions. > ... Instead of

Re: rsync time machine backup permissions

What is the order that rsync uses to set permissions? Time Machine directories have ACL permissions that basically prohibit making any changes of any kind. In order to make a backup of the directory, you would need to set those permissions after copying everything in the subdirectories. Is