On 08 Apr 2025, at 12:54, Graham Leggett via rsync <rsync@lists.samba.org> wrote:
> Another thing I've found is that my backups have lost their permissions. > > I misunderstood the --chmod option, thinking that it specified the > permissions at the destination. What actually happens is that it overrides > the source permissions, and has a side effect of the destination permissions > being the same as the source. It looks like it works, when metadata is lost. > > I now need to fix this. > > What option will set the permissions on the destination side, while not > affecting the permissions being fed into --fake-super on the source side? > > The end goal is a simple backup of a source filesystem preserving all users, > all groups, all permissions, and all attributes, while the destination is a > filesystem of a normal non-root user account. I have proposed a --chmod-dest option to achieve this. The --chmod-dest option allows the destination permissions to be specified independently of the permissions backed up by --fake-super attributes. This means the source permissions are maintained, while on the backup machine permissions can be granted to allow specific users/groups to have read access to the backups. https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/pull/751 Regards, Graham --
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