Using rsync to just -resync permissions and ownership?

[Wayne Davison]

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Carl Brewer <carl at bl.echidna.id.au> wrote:

> so --archive will overwrite permissions on files that it's not replacing?
>

Yes, but you need to be very sure that it doesn't overwrite changed files
that you wanted to keep.  For safety, you can use --backup along with
--backup-dir and check the backup files to see if anything was superseded
that shouldn't be.

However if I were wanting to just reset permissions, I'd use
the file-attr-restore perl script in the support directory.  It parses the
output of a find -ls run (which is generated on the host that has the good
permissions).  It does not try to fix up any xattrs or acls, though (if you
should need that).

..wayne..
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