On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 07:28:51AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> I'be brought up my backup script for discussion before, and folks where
> ful in solving a problem, but the solution created another. Now all
> files backed up have their ownerships changed to me, brownh:brownh.
>
> Here's the old script, which had the problem that output was going to a
> mail message that quickly exceeded system limits, and then caused the
> backup process to terminate:
>
> find / -print | egrep -v "^/media|^/proc|^/sys|^/mnt" | cpio -pdmuv
> /media/mirror/"$dirName" > 2>&1 | cat -vt
>
> Here's the new script which only sends an error message:
>
> find / -print | egrep -v "^/media|^/proc|^/sys" | cpio -pdmuv
> /media/mirror/"$dirName" 2>&1 | cat -vT >/home/brownh/.backup.log
>
> However, it seems to convert ownership of all files backed up to
> brownh:brownh.
>
> --

I did:
cpio --

and the only thing that stuck out was this option:
--no-preserve-owner Do not change the ownership of the files

so maybe add this and use:
cpio -pdmuv --no-preserve-owner

hth,
K
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