RE: [rdiff-backup-users] failure backing up to windows partition

[Törrönen, Paul-Erik]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Edmunds [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: 2003-03-23 22:11
> Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] failure backing up to 
> windows partition

> On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 09:48:18 -0800
> Ben Escoto <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Yes, ownership information should not be lost even if it 
> isn't set in
> > the file system.  How about making --windows-mode disable chown?
> I've tried the patch - thanks Ben: details below. I'm not sure that
> disabling chown automatically for --windows-mode is the right thing to
> do - as I recall, if the destination partition is a cygwin partition
> (obviously running under Windows) then the chown _will_ work, although
> of course --windows-mode still needs to be specified.

What about having an option in rdiff-backup which defines
which user.group the files should be saved as, independed
from the --windows-mode. This would tackle the 'mounted-as'-
problem, not only the ntfs-partition (is this really safe yet?)
but any where the ownership is not truly supported (smbfs,
vfat, etc...).

Just my 0.02 cents,
Poltsi

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