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		agj on June 17, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Central Logging with Open Source Software You should look into a tool that stores meta information on the backup files, such as rdiff-backup. Manually restoring ownership/permissions from a backup is probably tiring.

Wilya on June 17, 2012 [–]

I backup (and chown) archives, not directly the files, so restoring the permissions isn't much of an issue. Sorry, was unclear :s

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