Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Why am I getting the error here?

[Alex Samad]

On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 05:25:36PM -0600, Robert Nicholson wrote:
> So after unchecking ignore permissions I get
> 

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> 
> Backup drive
> 
> audrey:Contents robert$ ls -al
> total 8
> drwx------  5 robert  staff   170 Nov  7 14:41 .
> drwx------  3 robert  staff   102 Nov  7 14:41 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  5 robert  staff   170 Apr 25  2009 Frameworks
> -rw-r--r--  1 robert  staff  1119 Oct  2 04:30 Info.plist
> drwx------  8 robert  staff   272 Nov  7 14:41 MacOS
> audrey:Contents robert$ pwd
> /Volumes/G-RAID/rdiff-backups/Macintosh SSD/Applications/
> VirtualBox.app/Contents
> 
> Source drive
> 
> audrey:Contents robert$ ls -al
> total 16
> drwxr-xr-x   7 root  admin   238 Oct  7 23:10 .
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root  admin   102 Apr 28  2009 ..
> drwxr-xr-x   5 root  admin   170 Apr 25  2009 Frameworks
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  admin  1119 Oct  2 04:30 Info.plist
> drwxr-xr-x  74 root  admin  2516 Nov  7 11:19 MacOS
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  admin     8 Oct  2 04:30 PkgInfo
> drwxr-xr-x  32 root  admin  1088 Oct  7 23:10 Resources
> audrey:Contents robert$
> 
> why are the permissions not carried over?
> 
> I'm running rdiff as an admin user using sudo
> 
> sudo rdiff-backup --create-full-path --verbosity 4
> --print-statistics --exclude-globbing-filelist
> $HOME/backup_excludes.txt --exclude-other-filesystems
> --exclude-sockets / "${GRAID_VOLUME}/rdiff-backups/Macintosh SSD"

I am not a mac using, but I wonder about 2 things
what is the result of 

using ls -aln to see the numerical results.

also I wonder if adm has the right to change files to different users,
or when you said you use sudo, you meant as adm you ran sudo 

> 

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