On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 09:43:06PM +0530, Sherin A wrote: > If linux user foo , with home /home/foo , what ownership we need > to give the files under his home folder , it must be "foo" and not > root. Why? The user created the hardlink themselves, and it had root ownership, why should the backup/restore lose that information? Are you manually chowning the files after restore? That's prolly also losing timestamp information by doing that.
> After Rsync it will be as follows, rsync -H preserves hardinks, otherwise it doesn't. > root@cptest [~]# find /home/dom2inho/ -type f -links +1 => He have > hard link in home > /home/dom2inho/shadow > root@cptest [~]# find /backup/dom2inho -type f -links +1 => There > is no hard link in backp > root@cptest [~]# You should also do find /etc/ -type f -links +1. Justin -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
