Rclone copy local preserve user / group / permission

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What is the problem you are having with rclone?

i am using rclone v1.68, and i am using the --metadata flag, i was expecting rclone to preserve user / group / permission but it getting changed to the user running rclone ( or root when running with sudo)

sudo rclone copy test3/ test5/ --metadata

I tested on both local storage (i.e from a folder on the same disk to another folder on the same disk) and over nFS

Is there a way to get rclone to preserve this when doing a copy locally

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welcome to the forum,

might want to rclone selfupdate and test again.

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Thanks @asdffdsa that got me some of the way there, the only issue i see is that if ( using my example above) test5 does not exist it got made with root:root and 755 where test3 had different ownership and was 775

everything inside test5 was identical to test3
Thanks
Adam

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yeah, that is what the docs state.
do you get the same behavior on a file?

let's see what metadata is available to rclone. something like this.
rclone lsjson --stat --metadata test3/ -vv

can you post output of rclone version

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2025/01/27 22:23:46 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.69.0" starting with parameters ["rclone" "lsjson" "--stat" "--metadata" "test2/" "-vv"]
2025/01/27 22:23:46 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "test2/"
2025/01/27 22:23:46 DEBUG : Using config file from "/home/adam/.config/rclone/rclone.conf"
2025/01/27 22:23:46 DEBUG : fs cache: renaming cache item "test2/" to be canonical "/user_data/test2"
{

{
	"Path": "",
	"Name": "",
	"Size": -1,
	"MimeType": "inode/directory",
	"ModTime": "2025-01-27T22:23:46.607919413Z",
	"IsDir": true
}
2025/01/27 22:23:46 DEBUG : 3 go routines active


rclone v1.69.0                               
- os/version: rocky 9.4 (64 bit)
- os/kernel: 5.14.0-427.24.1.el9_4.cloud.3.0.x86_64 (x86_64)
- os/type: linux
- os/arch: amd64
- go/version: go1.23.4
- go/linking: static
- go/tags: none

copy a single file worked fine

 sudo rclone copy test1/file1111 . -vv --metadata                                         
2025/01/27 22:25:52 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.69.0" starting with parameters ["rclone" "copy" "test1/file1111" "." "-vv" "--metadata"]
2025/01/27 22:25:52 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "test1/file1111"
2025/01/27 22:25:52 NOTICE: Config file "/root/.config/rclone/rclone.conf" not found - using defaults
2025/01/27 22:25:52 DEBUG : fs cache: renaming child cache item "test1/file1111" to be canonical for parent "/user_data/test1"
2025/01/27 22:25:52 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "."
2025/01/27 22:25:52 DEBUG : fs cache: renaming cache item "." to be canonical "/user_data"
2025/01/27 22:25:52 DEBUG : file1111: Need to transfer - File not found at Destination
2025/01/27 22:25:52 DEBUG : file1111: md5 = 8fec378760f1e7e708e9f57edafc28fc OK
2025/01/27 22:25:52 DEBUG : file1111.1644b32.partial: renamed to: file1111
2025/01/27 22:25:52 INFO  : file1111: Copied (new)
2025/01/27 22:25:52 INFO  : 
Transferred:   	          1 B / 1 B, 100%, 0 B/s, ETA -
Transferred:            1 / 1, 100%
Elapsed time:         0.0s

2025/01/27 22:25:52 DEBUG : 6 go routines active
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ok, i think we have enough basic debug info.

am i correct in stating that:
for files, lsjson is returning gid + uid
for directories, lsjson is NOT returning gid + uid

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Correct,

{
	"Path": "file1111",
	"Name": "file1111",
	"Size": 1,
	"MimeType": "application/octet-stream",
	"ModTime": "2025-01-27T21:18:42.559181197Z",
	"IsDir": false,
	"Metadata": {
		"atime": "2025-01-27T21:19:14.098861818Z",
		"btime": "2025-01-27T22:26:48.477925584Z",
		"gid": "1330800513",
		"mode": "100664",
		"mtime": "2025-01-27T21:18:42.559181197Z",
		"uid": "1330801363"
	}
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