On 08 Apr 2025, at 10:28, Graham Leggett via rsync
wrote:
> Unfortunately all combinations of --fake-super that I have used so far have
> had the effect of backing up the backup, not restoring the backup.
Looking in the source code, it looks like the difference between rsync
performing a --fa
On 08 Apr 2025, at 10:04, Paul Slootman via rsync wrote:
>> I have a backup that was created with --fake-super that I need to restore to
>> a fresh partition on the same machine as the backup (source and destination
>> on the same machine).
>>
>> The docs describe how --fake-super is used to m
Hi all,
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 permiss
On Tue 08 Apr 2025, Graham Leggett via rsync wrote:
>
> I have a backup that was created with --fake-super that I need to restore to
> a fresh partition on the same machine as the backup (source and destination
> on the same machine).
>
> The docs describe how --fake-super is used to make the b
