Hopper hard drive duplication for backup

[Jim5506]

Does the hopper care which user owns the files? It's easy enough to chown them, but I'm curious.

YES. The files and the EHD are tied to the account of the creating dish receiver, so you can't port them to someone else's receiver.

 

[shideg]

YES. The files and the EHD are tied to the account of the creating dish receiver, so you can't port them to someone else's receiver.

I was referring to the unix user. I'm copying files right now as root. They will be owned by root on the disk. But does the hopper care which unix user owns the files?

 

[bookworm370]

I was referring to the unix user. I'm copying files right now as root. They will be owned by root on the disk. But does the hopper care which unix user owns the files?

Naa. It's just the format of the drive (it uses EXT3) and the file structure and all the support files in each subdirectory in each partition. You can even move recording between partitions and it doesn't care. Its the name of the folder and that stuff inside.

When I've copied I just use a file manager (Dolphin in older version, or just the new GNome default file manager in the new Ubuntu 24 LTS

 

[TheKrell]

Does the hopper care which user owns the files? It's easy enough to chown them, but I'm curious.

I haven't tried this on my Hopper, but on my 722 EHD it most assuredly has to be owned by root:root. I found that out the hard way by using the GUI on... I think it was Scientific Linux which is a now defunct redistribution of RHEL.

In any case, the screen manager, whatever it was, was not running privileged and all the copied files had their ownership changed. Those programs disappeared as viewed from the 722 so I had to go back and chown them all.