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I really need the original permissions and ownerships in the snapshots, and not the latest ones. How can I accomplish that?

April 26, 2017accomplish latest original ownerships permissions snapshots

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I really need the original permissions and ownerships in the snapshots, and not the latest ones. How can I accomplish that?

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• A: J.W. Schultz has created a –link-dest patch for rsync which takes care of the hard-linking part of this trick (instead of cp -al). It can preserve permissions and ownerships. As of rsync-2.5.6, it is now standard. See the discussion above.