I use rsync in a fairly complex scripted situation and am trying to figure out
how to avoid changing ownership/permissions just on the directories specified
on the command line (but operate normally for everything underneath).
I've been using --relative --no-implied-dirs with some success in other
situations, but here it still seems to try to chown the last path component of
the implied-dirs, even when the /./ separator is appended. When I use
verbose, I see that rsync does a chdir() to the implied dir on the receiving
end, but then also tries to chown('.') which I don't expect it to be doing. I
expected rsync to not try to change permissions or ownership on everything
before the /./ separator.
E.g. backing up and restoring my Windows home directory which is owned by
SYSTEM:SYSTEM with everything underneath owned by me:me to a remote Linux
server with everything owned by me:me:
rsync -a --super --relative --no-implied-dirs "--filter=. HomeWin.rfilter"
/cygdrive/c/Users/me/./ myserver:/WinBACKUP/Users/me/
where HomeWin.rfilter is anchored at a Windows home directory and contains
something like:
+ /Pictures/
- /*
This ends up failing to chown SYSTEM:SYSTEM /WinBACKUP/Users/me (permission
denied; no such user/group).
I have a usable workaround which is just to chown me:me /cygdrive/c/Users/me,
but it would be nice to figure out a proper solution without risking Windows
issues.
Any help, ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks,
-- Chris
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