preserving the DESTINATION permissions, group and owner of the transferred files

Wayne Davison wayned at samba.org
Sun May 2 20:40:21 MDT 2010


On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Terrence Brannon <schemelab at gmail.com>wrote:

> I want the permissions, group and owner of the transferred files to retain
> the settings of the DESTINATION file.  Is this possible with rsync?
>

The perms (mode) part works well by leaving off --perms (or using
--no-perms), since that leaves the perms of existing files unchanged, even
when updating them.  Sadly, the same is not true for owner and group.  You'd
have to use --inplace and leave off --owner and --group to leave files
owner/group unchanged.

..wayne..
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