Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync - fileowner lost during backup or restore

[Matthias M. <Mat...@gm...>]

Matthias Meyer wrote:

> Hi,
> I try to backup my windows clients with backuppc as well as cygwin/rsync.
> 
> The backup/restore with rsyncd at windows and rsync on linux (run as root)
> works well. Only as normal (linux) user it didn't work because of
> insufficient privileges for chmod and chgrp.
> 
> With backuppc (run as user backuppc) I have problems.
> In the XferLOG the uid/gid of the files will be reported. But in the
> backuppc datastore (/var/lib/backuppc/pc/...) the fileowner is set to
> backuppc:backuppc.
> After restore of files to the windows client they will be owned by the
> rsyncd process owner (SYSTEM:SYSTEM).
> 
> I use the following flags for backup:
> --super --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links
> --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --one-file-system --bwlimit=2840
> and the following for restore:
> --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links
> --times --block-size=2048 --relative --ignore-times --recursive
> 
> Did backuppc store the fileowner in the filesystem or in the attrib file?
> Did backuppc need to be run as root to run chmod/chgrp succesfull?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Matthias

I found my mistake:
Parameter for backup should be:
--numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times
--block-size=2048 --recursive --one-file-system
and for restore it should be:
--super
--numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times
--block-size=2048 --relative --ignore-times --recursive

All the famous defaults from backuppc but additional --super.

br
Matthias
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