rsync - Apr 2025 - How do I restore using --fake-super?

On Tue 08 Apr 2025, Graham Leggett via rsync wrote:
> 
> I have a backup that was created with --fake-super that I need to restore
to a fresh partition on the same machine as the backup (source and destination
on the same machine).
> 
> The docs describe how --fake-super is used to make the backup, but none of
the docs describe how you do the reverse and restore.
The manpage says:

    --fake-super             store/recover privileged attrs using xattrs

so I would assume that also use --fake-super during restore?


Paul

On 08 Apr 2025, at 10:04, Paul Slootman via rsync <rsync at
lists.samba.org> wrote:
>> I have a backup that was created with --fake-super that I need to
restore to a fresh partition on the same machine as the backup (source and
destination on the same machine).
>> 
>> The docs describe how --fake-super is used to make the backup, but none
of the docs describe how you do the reverse and restore.
> 
> The manpage says:
> 
>    --fake-super             store/recover privileged attrs using xattrs
> 
> so I would assume that also use --fake-super during restore?
Unfortunately all combinations of --fake-super that I have used so far have had
the effect of backing up the backup, not restoring the backup.

To be explicit, my source backup directory has the user.rsync.%stat attribute as
expected indicating a correct backup. My destination directory also has the
user.rsync.%stat directory, indicating that I have just backed up my backup, I
have not restored my backup.

Can anyone confirm the correct restore command line option, as opposed to the
backup command line option? Or to put this another way, how do I "do then
undo", and not "do twice"?

Regards,
Graham
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