A question to rsync....

[Cameron Simpson]

On 28Jan2010 23:32, DB <Freddog_de at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
| If I rsync from my desktop to my laptop, all appears to be well, but if 
| I use a script to copy files from desktop to external HDD, the owner & 
| group all get changed to 'root'. part of my script follows:

What format is your external drive? If it is, say, a FAT filesystem then
it does not support user and group information.
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