Change files ownership when coping

[ivankuzmanovv (Ivan Kuzmanov)]

Hello, i am using rclone to copy between two nfs shares. I want to change the ownership of the files in the destination. Right now only new files are being copied with the right ownership that i give in the command. How can i change all the files's ownership even though they are already copied?

The command i am trying to run:

RCLONE_COMMAND="rclone copy /mount/$NFS_SOURCE/ /mount/$NFS_DEST/ --metadata ${NEW_UID:+--metadata-set UID=${NEW_UID}} ${NEW_GID:+--metadata-set GID=${NEW_GID}} --links --no-update-modtime --progress --use-mmap --log-level=DEBUG --size-only --multi-thread-streams=$NUM_THREADS --transfers=$TRANSFERS --checkers=$CHECKERS --buffer-size=256M --server-side-across-configs --log-file=$LOG_FILE"

For example here the first file is freshly copied, but the other ones are old and their ownership is not changed. Is there a way to make rclone overwrite this or should i run a script to manually change all the ownership of the files?

-rw-rw-r-- 1 9999 9999  10M Jul  4 14:07 file5g31.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  10M Jul  4 14:07 file5g91.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  10M Jul  4 14:07 file5g92.dat

[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

@ivankuzmanovv

For example here the first file is freshly copied, but the other ones are old and their ownership is not changed. Is there a way to make rclone overwrite this or should i run a script to manually change all the ownership of the files?

As you've discovered, rclone doesn't sync the metadata, only copy it on first upload.

Syncing the metadata would be nice but in the mean time if you delete all the files with the wrong ownership the next run of rclone will put them back correctly.