Re: 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

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