Re: Permission changes with rsync

In article <200711261406.28704.hans.ullrich@loop.de> you wrote:
> I used "rsync -av" from source to target. (O.k., I missed to
> add --numeric-ids, which resulted in getting some files with numeric owners),
> But other files on the target got wrong owners or groups ! So, this should
> not happen, IMO !

1. are you root?
2. what is the numeric uid on source and target? (use "ls -n")
3. on some? are those all belong to one user or dot files or existing/non existing=
4. can you manually change the ownership? (what is the filesystem type, does it allow userids?)

Gruss
Bernd

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