Quoth Alma J Wetzker:
Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:23:07 -0500
Net Llama! wrote:
Why would you need to cheat? Are you using the 'upgrade' optoin from the RH9 Installer, or do you mean, reload the box fresh with RH9? If you're reloading, then you need to backup all of /home and backup /etc/passwd, /etc/group & /etc/shadow
So if I backup the files mentioned above and by Keith Morse, the accounts will be there just as they were before and won't have to be re-entered?
That should keep all your data. Owner information may be a problem with the /home stuff depending in how you do it (a real backup that preserves owner/group data as opposed to a cp from a backup CD for instance.). I think the accounts need to exist for the data to keep the owners.
The files and directories will retain the UIDs and GIDs, so when the proper password and group files are restored, the UIDs and GIDs will map to the appropriate names.
<Clueless Mode>
I thought that if I cp'd stuff to a CDR that the owner changed to who cp'd the files. I haven't tried gziping them and uzgziping but I thought the owner was the one who did the restore. (I vaguely remember an option on *zip to preserve owner, but I never used it.) I know with tar or cpio ownership can be preserved.
Is the owner preserved now regardless of how the restore is done? </Clueless Mode>
-- Alma
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