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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] User/Group Permissions Question - IS THIS A BUG


From: Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso
Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] User/Group Permissions Question - IS THIS A BUG?
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:08:44 +0100
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You're fully right about that. Thank you very much. :-)

Chris Wilson escribió:
> As Damon Timm pointed out, preserving any kind of ownership does not
> work when you run the restore as a non-root user. Unix does not allow
> non-root users (including rdiff-backup when run on your behalf) to
> change the owner of files. They will always be owned by the user that
> you are running as. If you run the restore as root, then ownership
> should be preserved either by name or by UID.
>
> Cheers, Chris.





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