[BackupPC-users] rsync file restore ownership

2018-12-14 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
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 g

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync file restore ownership

2018-12-14 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
Not that I'm aware of, but I will say that I was restoring 2 subdirectories at the same time into my home, and perhaps the restores collided with the result that neither restore were able to set the ownership correctly when they were done. I'll have to test that out. Thanks for the reply. O

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync file restore ownership

2018-12-14 Thread Tony Schreiner
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 wrote: > It's been a while since I had to restore a file which has always gone