Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Windows Directory Permissions

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Mar 8, 2009, at 10:14 PM, tkeene wrote:

> 4. Finally: ls -l on source:
>
> PS C:\Users\Tommy> ls -l C:\Users\Tommy\Documents


Tommy,

Can you run `ls -l /cygdrive/c/Users/Tommy/` in Cygwin? Since you are  
running rdiff-backup under Cygwin, we need to see how Cygwin is  
presenting the permissions to rdiff-backup.

When you run Cygwin, do you right-click and run as administrator? That  
is necessary to give the Cygwin environment your administrator privs.

The problem is almost certainly with how Cygwin is presenting the  
permissions to rdiff-backup, which then faithfully replicates those  
same permissions on the destination. If you were using the native  
version of rdiff-backup (the .exe, not built in Cygwin), then rdiff- 
backup would read the Windows ACLs, like icacls does, and give your  
account the correct permissions.


Andrew