Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Restoring a folder. Uid not correct

[Fran Firman]

Oh and BTW the backup has the correct owners, so it is only on the
restore.

ganymede:~/backups/test# ls -l
total 4
-rw-r--r--    1 2000     2000            0 2004-06-01 08:33 file1
-rw-r--r--    1 2002     2002            0 2004-06-01 08:33 file2
-rw-r--r--    1 2003     2003            0 2004-06-01 08:33 file3
-rw-r--r--    1 2004     2004            0 2004-06-01 08:33 file4
drwx------    3 root     root         4096 2004-06-01 08:36
rdiff-backup-data
zcat mirror_metadata.2004-06-01T08\:35\:58+13\:00.snapshot.gz 
File .
  Type dir
  ModTime 1086035606
  Uid 1000
  Uname fran
  Gid 1000
  Gname fran
  Permissions 493
File file1
  Type reg
  Size 0
  ModTime 1086035604
  Uid 2000
  Uname None
  Gid 2000
  Gname None
  Permissions 420
File file2
  Type reg
  Size 0
  ModTime 1086035605
  Uid 2002
  Uname None
  Gid 2002
  Gname None
  Permissions 420
File file3
  Type reg
  Size 0
  ModTime 1086035605
  Uid 2003
  Uname None
  Gid 2003
  Gname None
  Permissions 420
File file4
  Type reg
  Size 0
  ModTime 1086035606
  Uid 2004
  Uname None
  Gid 2004
  Gname None
  Permissions 420



On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 08:40, Fran Firman wrote:
> Here is an example that works, or doesn't work depending on your point
> of view... :)
> 
> 
> In a test  (called test) folder create four files
> 
> mkdir test
> 
> touch file1
> touch file2
> touch file3
> touch file4
> 
> Change the ownership of the files to ones that don't exist on the
> system.
> 
> chown 2000:2000 file1 
> chown 2002:2002 file2
> chown 2003:2003 file3
> chown 2004:2004 file4
> 
> Now backup the files with rdiff-backup, as the user root.
> 
> su - 
> rdiff-backup /home/fran/test test-backup
> 
> Now restore the files to a new folder
> 
> rdiff-backup -r now test-backup /home/fran/test/tt
> 
> cd /home/fran/test/tt
> 
> ls -l 
> 
> and the files have
> 
> address@hidden:~/t/tt$ ls -l
> total 0
> -rw-r--r--    1 2000     2000            0 2004-06-01 08:33 file1
> -rw-r--r--    1 2000     2000            0 2004-06-01 08:33 file2
> -rw-r--r--    1 2000     2000            0 2004-06-01 08:33 file3
> -rw-r--r--    1 2000     2000            0 2004-06-01 08:33 file4
> 
> The wrong uid's..
> F.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 13:14, Ben Escoto wrote:
> > >>>>> Fran Firman <address@hidden>
> > >>>>> wrote the following on Mon, 31 May 2004 14:08:06 +1200
> > 
> > > I have found a problem when I was doing a restore, regarding the uid and
> > > gid information.
> > 
> > Hmm, what version are you running, and what are the OSes and
> > filesystems on both sides?  Is there anything unusual about your
> > system?  Any warnings or strange messages?
> > 
> > You're restoring as root right?  Just checking.
> > 
> > > When I restored the home folder with 4 users, as /home to /home, the
> > > first user had the correct uid's, and the others all had the same uid's
> > > as the first user.
> > 
> > It would be super-helpful if this mistake were replicable on a toy
> > example: say a directory with just two files in it, one owned by one
> > user and one owned by another user.
> 
> 
> 
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