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2019 Aug 27
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implied-dirs tail component being chown'd
...erything before the /./ separator.
E.g. backing up and restoring my Windows home directory which is owned by SYSTEM:SYSTEM with everything underneath owned by me:me to a remote Linux server with everything owned by me:me:
rsync -a --super --relative --no-implied-dirs "--filter=. HomeWin.rfilter" /cygdrive/c/Users/me/./ myserver:/WinBACKUP/Users/me/
where HomeWin.rfilter is anchored at a Windows home directory and contains something like:
+ /Pictures/
- /*
This ends up failing to chown SYSTEM:SYSTEM /WinBACKUP/Users/me (permission denied; no such user/group).
I have a usable w...