On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 12:39:29PM +0000, mick crane wrote: > Appears that to retain permissions need root at both ends of rsync. Not necessarily. If the server filesystem supports xattrs, you can use the --fake-super option with the rsync server, running as a non-root user that can write to the storage. To set the option on the client side for rsync over ssh, use: --rsync-path "rsync --fake-super" Regards, Mirko