A question to rsync....

[Cameron Simpson]

| >On 28Jan2010 23:32, DB<Freddog_de at yahoo.co.uk>  wrote:
| >| If I rsync from my desktop to my laptop, all appears to be well, but if
| >| I use a script to copy files from desktop to external HDD, the owner&
| >| group all get changed to 'root'. part of my script follows:
| >
| >What format is your external drive? If it is, say, a FAT filesystem then
| >it does not support user and group information.
|
| Thanks, Cameron, it was an NTFS partition.  It is now an ext3 &
| permissions etc are "as expected"!

Glad to hear it. Cheers,
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