hello, Same thing happened to me today. Restoring /home/ronbar6 changed ownership of / to ronbar6:ronbar6 and also changed permissions to something different than 555 (I dont remember).
I use tar for backup and restore. I see something funny on the logs: Source share/Destination hosttcn-05-lon-cp6Destination share/ Original file/dirRestored totcn-05-lon-cp6://home/ronbar6 tcn-05-lon-cp6://home/ronbar6/ Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/tcn-05-lon-cp6/RestoreLOG.0.z, modified 2013-05-06 15:23:46 Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root tcn-05-lon-cp6 env LC_ALL=C /bin/tar -x -p --numeric-owner --same-owner -v -f - -C / Running: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h tcn-05-lon-cp6 -n 12 -s / -t -r /home/ronbar6 -p /home/ronbar6/ /home/ronbar6 Xfer PIDs are now 28799,28800 tarCreate: Use of qw(...) as parentheses is deprecated at /usr/share/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/Storage/Text.pm line 302. tarCreate: Use of qw(...) as parentheses is deprecated at /usr/share/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm line 1425. stdin: is not a tty ./home/ronbar6/ ./home/ronbar6/.bash_logout ./home/ronbar6/.bash_profile ./home/ronbar6/.bashrc ./home/ronbar6/.contactemail ./home/ronbar6/.cpanel/ ./home/ronbar6/.htpasswds/ ./home/ronbar6/.lastlogin ./home/ronbar6/.spamassassin/ ./home/ronbar6/.sqmailattach/ ./home/ronbar6/.sqmaildata/ ./ ./home/ronbar6/access-logs ./home/ronbar6/cpbackup-exclude.conf ./home/ronbar6/cpmove.psql/ ./ ./home/ronbar6/etc/ ./home/ronbar6/mail/ ./ ./home/ronbar6/public_html/ ./home/ronbar6/rcube_ronbar6_di796Ji4jd19TJf8.1347474888 ./home/ronbar6/tmp/ ./home/ronbar6/www ./home/ronbar6/.spamassassin/bayes_seen ./home/ronbar6/.spamassassin/bayes_toks ./home/ronbar6/tmp/analog/ ./home/ronbar6/tmp/awstats/ ./ ./home/ronbar6/tmp/logaholic/ ./home/ronbar6/tmp/webalizer/ ./home/ronbar6/tmp/webalizerftp/ ./home/ronbar6/tmp/webalizerftp/ctry_usage_201205.png ./home/ronbar6/tmp/webalizerftp/ctry_usage_201209.png ./home/ronbar6/tmp/webalizerftp/ctry_usage_201210.png ./home/ronbar6/tmp/webalizerftp/daily_usage_201205.png What are those "./" doing there??!?... I think that is what is making us unhappy.