Re: File permissions

[Shachar S. <rsy...@sh...>]

John Hedges wrote:

>Hi Sanchar
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http://www.shemesh.biz/sun.html

Difficult name, I know :-)

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>>mostly because I got Hodgkin's disease, and
>>will take a few months to return to full capacity work).
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>Sorry to hear this, I imagine you are subject to some fairly horrendous
>treatments. Hope you get well soon.
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Yeah. Chemo is not my recommended past time, given a choice. Then again,
it's better than the alternative (i.e. - what would happen had this not
been treated).

>>I doubt I'll add a flag to change the ownership of the files during
>>backup. You are free to run "chown -R" on the directory after rsyncrypto
>>finishes.
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>That would be fine as long as the permissions are restored on decrypt.
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Permissions and ownership, once the feature is implemented of course.

>>Aside from performing tar to stdout, and piping that to rsyncrypto, I'm
>>afraid I know of no workaround yet :-(
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>This looks promising. Tarring whole directories before rsyncrypto would
>work well as long as tar is consistent with respect to the ordering of
>files within the archive. I'll give it a go.
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Even if file ordering does change, both rsync and rsyncrypto are
supposed to handle this fairly gracefully.

>Cheers
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>John
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Shachar


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