[rdiff-backup-users]

[stanlin]

****This is an edited version of a previous post****


Hi Andrew,

Thanks for replying. I have the latest rdiffbackup (1.0.5) and librsync (0.9.7).

It seems to be that rdiff or python is deciding to set some unusual 
permissions. I did more sleuthing and I need to revise the initial posting I 
wrote.

To give you more info, I just found out that this 'None' user is a red herring. 
The real symptom is the following:

I can manually create files in the same cygwin session (e.g. 'touch file.txt') 
and they inherit the permissions I would expect. However, when I attempt a 
backup in a folder with normal security, the backup fails with the mentioned 
error. When I inspect the folder, I find that the Windows permissions have 
changed; the destination folder is still owned by my user, which is good. 
However, now the owning user no longer has any read or write permissions when I 
look at the Windows folder security. 

It seems odd that the rdiffbackup somehow resulted in the stripping of 
permissions for the folder.

Thanks,
Stan

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