From: Paul F. <pg...@fo...> - 2004-07-30 12:32:47
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i suspect this is just a user-error issue, but i'd like to know how to do this properly. i had a disk die yesterday, and was ever so pleased to be running such a great backup program, that i was able to install a replacement, create the filesystem, and start the tar pipe to do the restore: bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h firethorn -n 259 -s /var2 / | ssh -l root firethorn tar -C /var2 -xvf - this worked just fine, and all of my files appeared on firethorn just fine. however, it looks as if at some point in the backup/restore process that uid/gid information is being treated as names, rather than numerically, because i had files change ownership after the restore. specifically, files owned by the user "remadm" (uid 500 on firethorn, the target of the backup and restore) were restored as user "alias" instead. user alias is uid 500 on the backuppc host, and is uid 21 on firethorn -- the files were owned by uid 21 after restoral. it looks as if the ownership info went from firethorn to the backuppc host numerically during the backup, and then back the other way by name during the restore. is there a way to run the above tarpipe differently to avoid this issue? if uids were handled numerically at all times, i'm sure this wouldn't have happened. i'm running tar 1.13.25 on both machines, and i'm running backuppc 2.0.2. i was able to repair this manually fairly easily, and didn't find any other examples, so it wasn't a big deal, but i'd like to avoid it for the Big One, if you know what i mean. :-) paul =--------------------- paul fox, pg...@fo... (arlington, ma, where it's 66.7 degrees) |