How to restore file from rsnapshot backup with correct permissions

I have installed a fresh version of Debian. I would like to restore some files in home with my backuped version as well as some under etc. The backup was created with rsnapshot. The point which is not that clear to me is as which user should I run the restore command. Let me make an example. Assume I would like to restore my rsnapshotfile within /etc/cron.d/. By default I see the following right permission in the fresh installed version: station:~$ ls -l /etc/cron.d/rsnapshot -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 472 Mar 26 2016 /etc/cron.d/rsnapshot In this case I need to run the rsync command as root or sudo, i.e. I was doing for testing: @thinkstation:~$ rsync /media/3985DAA24356D774/rsnapshot/station/daily.0/etc/etc/cron.d/rsnapshot /etc/cron.d/rTest But this leads to the following permissions: station:~$ ls -l /etc/cron.d/rTest -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 513 Sep 24 19:01 /etc/cron.d/rTest and this doesn't match the system defaults one. Another example, which is more frustrating. I was running rsync command as normal user (non root, non sudo). The files I've restored was a project which is version controlled via git. I did the restore because not all files were on github. After the restore I've seen a lot of difference because of the changed permission (which I don't understand as the files didn't involve any sudo rights and were transferred to my home directory). So I'm not sure if I did a mistake in the past while doing the backup or if I'm doing something wrong in restoring the files. In any case I would like to know how I can resolve that issue.