At 10:35 01.07.2016, Fabian Cenedese wrote: >At 10:12 01.07.2016, Simon Hobson wrote: >>> I'm having problems with the user rights. The backup works >>> ok but after restoring some files I can't access them. >> >>That's to be expected. >>NTFS has a very rich permissions system and rsync won't be capturing that. >>While it's a PITA, your best best is resetting permissions after restore. >>It's probably as 'simple' (for your own documents etc) to select the top >>level folder they are in, go to permissions, and have Windows re-apply them >>recursively - but as to the exact steps, I can't remember as Windows is >>something I avoid as much as I can get away with. > >I know how to do it (or at least managed to do it manually), but this backup >and restore should also be usable for "normal" users that don't know about >or don't want to fiddle with access rights.
I'm now trying the MinGW/MSYS rsync. That is older (3.0.8) but seems to work much better concerning user rights. Thanks bye Fabi -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
