Re: numeric-owner problem

2006-02-01 Thread Frank Smith
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 04:48:31PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:56:13AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: I saw a similar thing when the disk of my backup server died last month. The machine ran Debian

Re: numeric-owner problem

2006-01-31 Thread Inaki Sanchez
Hi, Tar stores by default both user/group name and numeric information when creating an archive. When creating archives, if --numeric-owner is used, the user/group name information isn't stored. When restoring, if --numeric-owner is set, tar will only use the numeric information from the

Re: numeric-owner problem

2006-01-31 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Kosa Attila wrote: 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

Re: numeric-owner problem

2006-01-31 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:56:13AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: I saw a similar thing when the disk of my backup server died last month. The machine ran Debian testing, and I used an Ubuntu Live CD (the Knoppix I had lying around didn't support SATA) to do the restore. After the

Re: numeric-owner problem

2006-01-31 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:56:13AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: I saw a similar thing when the disk of my backup server died last month. The machine ran Debian testing, and I used an Ubuntu Live CD (the Knoppix I had lying around didn't support

Re: numeric-owner problem

2006-01-31 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 04:48:31PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:56:13AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: I saw a similar thing when the disk of my backup server died last month. The machine ran Debian testing, and I

Re: numeric-owner problem

2006-01-31 Thread Kosa Attila
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

Re: numeric-owner problem

2006-01-31 Thread Kosa Attila
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 04:48:31PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:56:13AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: So you could easily get a real hodge-podge of names and numeric ids by recovering to a different system.

Re: numeric-owner problem

2006-01-31 Thread Kosa Attila
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:48:26PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Kosa Attila wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 04:48:31PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:56:13AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

Re: numeric-owner problem

2006-01-31 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:42:30PM +0100, Kosa Attila wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:48:26PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Kosa Attila wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 04:48:31PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote: On

Re: numeric-owner problem

2006-01-30 Thread Jon LaBadie
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

Re: numeric-owner problem

2006-01-30 Thread Frank Smith
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