>> For a long time I had rdiff-backup push backups to an external hard disk >> attached to my desktop. I moved and put the desktop in storage and now I'm >> putting the backup system back together with my laptop taking the place of the >> desktop. I noticed that ownership info seems to be lost from the repository >> since the hard disk is attached to a different system now. Does rdiff-backup >> preserve the ownership info in a different way or is it gone for good? > > > All the owner and group IDs (both the names and the numeric IDs) are > kept in the mirror_metadata files. By default, rdiff-backup will try to > restore to the same owner and group _names_. You can use the > "--preserve-numerical-ids" option to restore to the same numeric > UIDs/GIDs.
That's great. Does the same sort of thing apply to file permissions? If so, I can mangle owners, groups, and permissions as badly as I want and they'll still be perfectly preserved when I restore? - Grant
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