Numeric ids will show up instead of user names if you don't have a
username in the password file for a given userid. The O/S doesn't know in
that case what to display, so it just displays the raw id number. This
wouldn't seem to explain the situation in question, though, since it's a local
And we've done 19,658 runs so far (8/server/day), over 380 Gigs sync'd
with an average of 44Meg(11Meg compressed) of data per run, and all of
our backup files come across with correct owners and permissions. Whew!
I'd look to your filesystem first. Do the rsync'd files (not backup-dir
, as
well. We are also using the -a (archive) option, by the way, which should
mean preserve everything. This loss of ownership/permissions seems like a
definite bug to me. What do you think?
Regards,
Carey Jung
IT Freedom
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Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 12:38 AM
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Subject: permissions bug w/ --backup-dir or --backup option?
Running rsync 2.4.7pre1, using the --backup-dir option, I just realized
today that file ownerships and permissions of backed up files
