Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Ownership not preserved

[Greg Freemyer]

Did you try a restore?

I believe the ownership and other metadata is (can be) maintained
separately from the file, so you really can't tell much by just
looking at the ownership etc. of the backup file itself.

Greg

On 5/8/07, Stefan Wimmer <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I set up rdiff-backup for backing up my hosts following this howto:
>
>   http://arctic.org/~dean/rdiff-backup/unattended.html
>
> The problem is that *all* files in my backup directory are now owned by
> "backup:backup" regardless whether it was host:/root or host:/etc :-{
>
> If I run rdiff-backup from the hosts I want to backup as root the
> ownership is preserved but I wanted to avoid this because there is a lot
> of trouble with cronjobs as root ...
>
> Is there anything I miss or I could do to solve this problem?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Stefan
>
>
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