X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Matthias Meyer Subject: Re: NT-Authority/System will be file owner after rsync restore Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:17:09 +0100 Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <493317D0.1030805@cygwin.com> <49346E40.4050003@cygwin.com> Reply-To: Matthias.Meyer@gmx.li Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Matthias Meyer wrote: > >> create a new file /etc/test.txt >> bin>ls -alh /etc/test.txt >> bin>-rwx------+ 1 meyer Kein 0 Dec 1 23:01 /etc/test.txt >> >> Than I run a backup: >> After that my backup-protocol shows: >> create 644 18/544 0 etc/Test.txt >> >> But 18/544 is SYSTEM:Administratoren >> as /etc/passwd -> SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: >> and /etc/group -> Administratoren:S-1-5-32-544:544: >> shows. >> >> I've tried this with both, "cygrunsrv -I backup ..." as well as >> with "cygrunsrv -I backup -e CYGWIN=nontsec ..." >> >> Any further hint? > > Well services on <= XP run under the local system account so I'm > guessing that your backup service is using the permissions of the > creator of the backup files rather than the original permissions. > 'rsync', according to the man page, says that it has '-p' and > '-A' flags to preserve the original permission IDs (or '-a' which > includes '-p'). Are you using any of these? > --archive == -rlptgoD (--recursive, --links, --perms, --times, --group, --owner, -D) I use all of them in both, by backup as well as by restore. br Matthias -- Don't panic -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/