Apparently BackInTime, which uses rsync, doesn't just restore permissions when restoring files but also saves them separately to the data. Is it possible to restore permissions of specific directories / files only? I don't want to restore any files but only restore the permissions files had earlier.
Is this possible somehow?
If not the best way would probably creating a list changes of permissions by comparing files to the backup and doing it manually (related question).
I'm using Debian 9.1 with KDE.
Best Answer
GNU
chmod
can take a reference file:If the folder structure of your back remains the same, you could do something like:
/source/of
is the path from which the backup was done.Now you can use
find
's tests to only operate on the desired files/directories.Since you say it uses
rsync
, I think the directory structure should be retained, and it should be possible for you to mount the remote system locally using SSHFS, etc., so in principle this should work.