Re: backup script changes permissions

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 07:28:51AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> I'be brought up my backup script for discussion before, and folks where
> helpful in solving a problem, but the solution created another. 

I did not read it...

> Now all
> files backed up have their ownerships changed to me, brownh:brownh.
> 
> Here's the old script, which had the problem that output was going to a
> mail message that quickly exceeded system limits, and then caused the
> backup process to terminate:

Is this cron script?  Why "mail"?

> find / -print | egrep -v "^/media|^/proc|^/sys|^/mnt" | cpio -pdmuv
> /media/mirror/"$dirName" > 2>&1 | cat -vt 

I do not understand first ">"

> Here's the new script which only sends an error message:
> 
> find / -print | egrep -v "^/media|^/proc|^/sys" | cpio -pdmuv
> /media/mirror/"$dirName" 2>&1 | cat -vT >/home/brownh/.backup.log   
> 
> However, it seems to convert ownership of all files backed up to
> brownh:brownh. 
>From what account did you run this/
 * root from real root
 * root from sudo
 * account brownh 

If last, files are owned by brownh.  That is how it sould be.