Am 27.12.2010 22:23, schrieb Remy Blank: > Marc Blumentritt wrote: >> Have a look at ownership an permissions of virtualbox! > > rsync sets the mtime and permissions of directories *after* recursing > into them. So if you interrupted the process while it was copying the > contents of virtualbox, the permissions of that directory haven't been > set yet.
Ah, OK. Didn't know this. Do you know, why it does work like this? And does cp -a work in the same way? Regards, Marc