On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:33:10AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > My understanding, subject to correction, is that by default guntar > restores by trying to match text names (user and group) between the > archive and the recovery system. If a match is found, then the > restore is to the numeric uid/gid of the recovery system, thus > matching the names, but not the necessarily the numeric ids in the > archive. If matching text names are not found, then the archive's > numeric ids are used. > > So you could easily get a real hodge-podge of names and numeric ids > by recovering to a different system. > > Archived System Recovery System Result of Recovery > name id # name id # name id # > > AAA 111 AAA 111 AAA 111 > BBB 222 BBB 234 BBB 234 > CCC 333 (no CCC) (no 333) (none) 333 > DDD 444 (no DDD) (EEE is 444) EEE 444
I set back the whole backup with the amrecover command of amanda. This does not provide the facility of changing the parameters. The solution was: under Knoppix I removed all the users and groups (except the root) from files /etc/passwd, /etc/group and /etc/shadow before starting the restoring process so the system could not resolve names from uid/gid so it had to write out the uids/gids to the file system. -- Udvozlettel Zsiga