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...ters from "-avv" to "-rpltvv", the copy operation works, and unchanged files are recreated as hard links in the subsequent snapshots, but again, there is no original ownership and permission information retained. Finally, just to be sure I tried the parameters set to "-rpltogvv", which just made it copy each file on each subsequent snapshot, not creating hard links. One of the main points with this is that if I make the users backed up data available via samba, it's important that only the users themselves can access their own data, as per the permissions set...