Re: [rdiff-backup-users] unable to restore files

[Alex Samad]

On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 05:14:57PM +0100, Philippe wrote:
> >
> > If you just want the newest version of your files back you can simply
> > copy them from the backup directory using FTP or rsync or whatever.
> >
> > Jakob
> >
> 
> Thanks for the reply Jakob,
> 
> the problem is that I have a whole system to restore so I need to keep the
> ownership of the files.

rsync will keep permissions and uid/gid 
rsync -aHSz

a - archive
H - hard link
S - sparse files
z - compress

> 
> Best regards
> 
> Philippe
> 
> 
> 
> 
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