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Hi,

I am using rdiff-backup to `push` backups via SSH to another server. Everything appears to be working fine apart from preservation of users/groups.
It appears from the man page that I need to the the --preserve-numerical-ids option in order to keep the original user and group ids. Despite this setting being enabled the backups still get stored with the user & group of the SSH user that I use to connect to the backup server.

Any ideas what I may be doing wrong?

Many Thanks,
Tom

On Monday, April 30, 2012, 15:23:11, explosive wrote:

Any ideas what I may be doing wrong?

Only root can change ownership AFAIK.

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On 04/30/2012 08:28 AM, Jernej Simonèiè wrote:
On Monday, April 30, 2012, 15:23:11, explosive wrote:

Any ideas what I may be doing wrong?

Only root can change ownership AFAIK.

Correct. Nothing can change the ownership of the files in the repository
unless the server is running with root permissions during the backup. The
preserve-numerical-ids option can still affect the ownership of restored
files (again, if the restore process is running with root permissions) if
the files are being restored to a system with different UID <> Owner or
GID <> Group mappings than were present on the system from which the
files were backed up.

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