While an rsync transfer is in progress, parent directories are owned by
root, and changed when all subdirectories are completed.
Could there have been an interruption?

On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 11:41 AM Pete Geenhuizen <p...@geenhuizen.net>
wrote:

> It's been a while since I had to restore a file which has always gone as
> expected.
>
> Today I restored 2 directories along with all the files to my home using
> the same method that I've always used, i.e. logged into the web
> interface as root and selecting the appropriate files and the world was
> good.
>
> However this time my home directory and the top directory of the 2
> directories that I was restoring, ended up being owned by root.  All the
> files in the directories retained the proper ownership, just the
> directories themselves were owned by root.
>
> I guess I've missed something in the config file that would ensure that
> the ownership fo the top directories would be correct.
>
> I'm running BackupPC v4.3 on Centos 7.6
>
> Pete
>
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