[mythtv-users] Permissions on recordings

Mike Perkins mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Thu Dec 27 11:39:28 UTC 2012


On 27/12/12 04:35, Paul Stillwell wrote:
> I recently copied a bunch of recordings from one hard drive to the other. I
> used rsync to copy them. I just noticed that the files are owned by user
> '500', group '500'. That doesn't seem right. I also noticed that new
> recordings are owned by 'root' and group 'root'. Is that correct? I would
> have assumed that they were owned by 'mythtv', group 'mythtv'.
>
This sounds like a consequence of not using the right rsync options. I use 
'rsync -av /source/directory/ /target/directory' and this copies over the owner, 
group and file permissions. (Other options available as preferred.)

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Mike Perkins



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