Re: Ownership and permissons?

[Paul v. d. V. <pa...@va...>]

Shachar Shemesh schreef:
> Paul van der Vlis wrote:
>> Shachar Shemesh schreef:
>>
>>   
>>> At this point in time, rsyncrypto does not back up either permission or
>>> ownership. It is planned for the future, but with no definitive time frame.
>>>     
>>
>> Maybe it is possible to save the ownership and permissions of all files
>> into a file?
>>
>> Something like that is also used to store Linux backups on e.g. FAT.
>>
>> ( I make a local copy of the system before the encryption, so no risk on
>> changings. )
>>
>>   
> One thing I can do quite easily is to have the backup files share the
> same owners and permissions as the original. I can do that without
> changing the file format (which is only planned for rsyncrypto 2, again
> with no clear date in view).
> 
> Would that solve the problem for you?

Maybe. Do you need to change the program to implement it?

A problem is that I would like to backup the files without root
privileges on the backup server. When all permissions and ownership
would be in a seperate file this would not be a problem.

Making a big tar.gz from the encrypted FS would be an option, but with
the disadvantage that I could not use hardlinks on the backupserver to
save diskspace.

With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.