[ubuntu-za] Grsync owner and permissions fail

[Tom Bamford]

On 3 June 2012 11:52, Wikus <mazal.wikus at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hallo all ,
>
> I would just like to know if someone knows why grsync doesn't preserve file
> owner and permissions correctly ?
> I formatted a usb stick to ext4 because I specifically want permissions
> preserved in my backups. I then made
> sure that I selected the "preserve owner , preserve permissions" options.
> But when I check in the backups this is not
> preserved. All folders and files the owner is made my id that ran the
> backup.
>

It may be that you need to run grsync as root in order for it to
preserve file ownership (I'm assuming you ran your CLI rsync script as
root?).

Regards
Tom

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