How to keep the file owner when use rclone sync

[lohasfeng]

Hello,
How to keep the file owner when use rclone sync?

ll local/
-rw------- 1 sure sure 0 Apr 12 11:03 testfile

rclone sync local/ dest/

ll dest/
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Apr 12 11:03 testfile

Thanks

[calisro (Rob)]

Rclone doesn’t track permissions nor owners. If you want to keep that, you can dump that meta data to a file and back that up for later restore.

[chiraag (ಚಿರಾಗ್ ನಟರಾಜ್)]

Or use tar (probably along with some form of compression). Might even save you space (at the cost of longer upload times, unless combined with some form of split invocation).