Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 10:00:45PM +0100, Kosa Attila wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Environment: >> - server >> - Debian Sarge, amanda-server 2.4.4p3-3; >> - client >> - Debian Sarge, amanda-client 2.4.4p3-3; >> - Debian Woody, amanda-client 2.4.4p3-3 (I made it myself >> backport). >> >> The clients' full backup is succesful with the following config >> (typically reiserfs partitions are required to backup): >> > ... >> I tried to restore the full backup by 3.7 Knoppix CD, and I >> succeeded, but there is only one mistake. Uid/gid pairs in the >> Knoppix system are different than in my Woody (or Sarge) system, >> therefore certain parts of the restored system are not able to >> work. I think it would be a solution if the tar used also a >> --numeric-owner option to backup. I wonder if the only >> possibility to do it is rewriting the source or there is any >> simpler method I didn't notice. >> > > I love it when man pages don't describe all the options and you > have to go to "info" to see what the poster is talking about :( > > If the users do not have the same numeric id's on both systems, > how would telling tar to use numeric id's help your situation? > I recall having this issue restoring on the Amanda server where the client machine user had a different UID on the server, and somehow after tarring up the temp restore directory on the server, and rsyncing it back to the client, the files ended up with a different uid than how they originally were on the client. I suspect Amanda's invocation of tar doesn't use --numeric-owner, so if bob is UID 1000 on machine A and UID 2000 on machine B, and you backup bob's files on A and restore on B, then move them back to A, they end up owned by 2000 on A, which is not bob on A. Or possibly I screwed up somewhere and wasn't aware of it. I just 'chmod -R' the directory and didn't investigate it further at the time.
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