Brian Dessent wrote: > Matthias Meyer wrote: > >> I've tried also ntsec, binmode and "". > > Why are you doing these things? Are you following somebody's "guide"? > Please tell them that they are spreading useless information if that is > the case. ntsec is the default. binmode is the default and is > irrelevant for files anyway. So "" is the same as "ntsec binmode", and > you should not need to set CYGWIN at all in general unless there is a > *specific* reason that calls for it. > >> All of this three list the true file owner with "ls -anlh". >> But as before, rsync -a create the files with the user who runs the rsync >> command. Also rsync -aA with or without --numeric-ids have this >> behaviour. >> >> I would believe that I have a very stupid failure. I can not believe that >> it is not possible to backup and restore the file owner. > > rsync only tries to set the owner when it thinks it has the privilege to > do so -- on most POSIX systems this means being the superuser, uid=0. > This check in rsync is less than useful on Cygwin where privileges work > differently. Thankfully they provide an override in the form of the > --super switch. > > Brian
Thanks Brian, Maybee I am a little bit helpless ;-) Please can you say what I have to do? Should rsync -a --super /cygdrive/c/data /cygdrive/c/backup do the job what I want? Is there a possibility to backup the files from different users (e.g. with rsync) and restore them with the same owner and permissions which they have at backup time? Thanks in advance Matthias -- Don't panic -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
