Re: Long-time rdiff-backup user confused on new installation: permissions

[Patrik Dufresne]

To my knowledge permission and ownership may be reflected to the target
destination but extra care need to be taken care of to make it happen. Man
page explains most of it.

Otherwise, Most of the time permission are not reflected to the target
destination and are simply stored in metadata. Then everything is owned by
the users running the script and 0700 for permissions.

Running the script as root might help. But would need to look at man page
to make sure.

On Sun., Nov. 7, 2021, 10:19 a.m. Bill Harris, <
bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com> wrote:

> Do the permissions and owners listed near the end seem reasonable?
>  Looking at it again this morning, I guess they do.
>
> I guess I need to run this script as root, because I'm backing up files
> from two different users.
>
> Bill
>
> On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 1:11 AM Dominic Raferd <dominic@timedicer.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> > On 06/11/2021 18:45, Bill Harris wrote:
> > > I've been using rdiff-backup for 10+ years...
> > What is the problem?
> >
> >
>