Re: Long-time rdiff-backup user confused on new installation: permissions

2021-11-07 Thread Patrik Dufresne
To my knowledge permission and ownership may be reflected to the target destination but extra care need to be taken care of to make it happen. Man page explains most of it. Otherwise, Most of the time permission are not reflected to the target destination and are simply stored in metadata. Then

Re: Long-time rdiff-backup user confused on new installation: permissions

2021-11-07 Thread Bill Harris
Do the permissions and owners listed near the end seem reasonable? Looking at it again this morning, I guess they do. I guess I need to run this script as root, because I'm backing up files from two different users. Bill On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 1:11 AM Dominic Raferd wrote: > On 06/11/2021

Re: Long-time rdiff-backup user confused on new installation: permissions

2021-11-07 Thread Dominic Raferd
On 06/11/2021 18:45, Bill Harris wrote: I've been using rdiff-backup for 10+ years... What is the problem?