[Bacula-users] Re: Restoring on Windows

[Kern S. <ke...@si...>]

On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 18:26, Johan Decock wrote:
> I read the following:
> 
> Restoring on Windows
> If you are restoring on WinNT/2K/XP systems, Bacula will restore the files with the original ownerships and permissions as would be expected. This is also true if you are restoring those files to an alternate directory (using the Where option in restore). However, if the alternate directory does not already exist, the Bacula File daemon (Client) will create it, and since the File daemon runs under the SYSTEM account, the directory will be created with SYSTEM ownership and permissions. In this case, you may have problems accessing the newly restored files.
> 
> 
> Let's suppose our Windows filesystem is gone. 

Then you cannot be doing a restore because the File daemon runs only if
there is a system.

> Consequently the directory structure is also gone. Does this mean all our files will be restored with system ownership and permissions?

If the OS is not restored correctly, I think there will be some problems
with SID's.  I don't know exactly what they are but I "think" they are
sort of like userid's mapping to a number on Unix. 

> 
> Would it be better to have the FD service run as an administrator while restoring? Will the ACLs be restored correctly then?

No only the SYSTEM account can restore all permission and ownership
correctly.

> 
> How come the system account is not able to restore the files as they were originally?

The system account does restore the files as they were. The text does
not say the contrary.  The text talks about creating an alternate
restore directory -- a directory that never existed on Windows before --
it doesn't talk about directories that are restored.

> 
> Good weekend,
> 
> Johan
> 
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