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...and copies permissions to backup. However, our archiving does not work. So I can roll back to older contents of a file but not to older permissions, owner/group information etc. Several web pages claim that rsync does not detect metadata changes at all. See for example http://www.noah.org/wiki/rsync_notes I think that rsync FAQ or other documentation should cover this. Difference between mtime and ctime might not be that clear to all. Also there could be some note about "cp -u", because it is first thing to come in mind if somebody is setting up archiving backups. -- Jori M?ntysalo