Re: 'rsync -a' not preserving ownership

On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 8:17 AM wrote: > So, why is 'cp -a' able to preserve ownership while 'rsync -a' fails > and sets ownership to the login name? Rsync is rather old-school Unix-oriented, so it only checks if its uid is 0 to see if it should try to chown things. You can give it the --super op

'rsync -a' not preserving ownership

I am running cygwin as Administrator and tried this under both Win7 and Win10. # touch test # chown Administrators.SYSTEM test # rsync -a test test2 # cp -a test test3 # ls -al test* -rw-r--r-- 1 Administrators SYSTEM 0 Jan 3 11:00 test -rw-r--r-- 1 myname None 0 Jan 3 11:00 test2 -rw-