Grsync questions

I noticed that in Grsync, the boxes for owner and permissions are not checked off.

Is there a reason for that?

Does Backup do the same?

And when a restore is done, are the permissions and owner lost?

If your saving to a Ext4 formatted disk or partition your permissions and ownership will stay in tacked. If your saving to a NTFS or FAT formatted disk or partition your permissions and ownership will be lost. This is Linux foundational.

However, if you restored a file from the Ubuntu mate backup utility (Deja Dup), I believe at that point the file would be owned by the account that you restored it to. Kind of like copying a system file to your home folder, it becomes yours.

Mine are being save to a ext3 hard drive.

Hallo fixit7

You may find this video useful:

If you run into a UID-problem grsync can be a useful tool, as you can choose to “switch-off” preserving permissions.

Deja-dup, the backup software included in Ubuntu-Mate make “compressed”, “incremental” backups - you need a copy of deja-dup to access the backup again. With grsync you can make an uncompressed backup that you can access from any attached Linux computer. My personal backup strategy uses both. :slight_smile:

2 Likes