Re: [Duplicity-talk] disable saving/restoring file permissions

[edgar . soldin]

On 26.09.2013 13:55, Martin Erik Werner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there any way to disable file permissions in duplicity, either at the
> point of creating the backup, or at the stage of restoring it?
> 
> In some cases you end up restoring a backup to a location where the
> original users and groups are unavailable (or inappropriate), and in
> that case it would be nice to tell duplicity to ignore the saved file
> permissions, in order to avoid a spam of
> 
>   Error '[Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '<filename>'' processing .
> 
> messages, which I presume is the result of duplicity trying to set
> permissions in a non-permitted fashion (the user exists, but the chown
> operation is not allowed, in my case).
> 
> Does some way around this already exist? 

not to my knowledge

> And if not, is it a reasonable
> feature to request?
> 

sure.. ede/duply.net