Re: [Duplicity-talk] Restore numeric owner?

[Dylan Martin]

And believe it or not, here's a patch which may or may not pass muster:

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Dylan Martin <address@hidden> wrote:
> Okay, I'm going to take a peek at the code and if it's not over my
> head, I'll send a patch.  Otherwise I'll make that request.
>
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Kenneth Loafman <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Dylan Martin wrote:
>>> When restoring a tar backup, you can specify --numeric-owner (at least
>>> with GNU tar) and files will keep the numeric uid/gid from the
>>> archive, even if they map to the different user names on the running
>>> system.  This is useful if you're doing the restore on a different
>>> system than the files will actually be used on.
>>>
>>> I'll explain my question another way in case I'm not making sense:
>>> When I restore a system, I normally boot up with a CD or other media.
>>> I then mount the hard drive of the victim machine and restore files
>>> onto that hard drive.  If the /etc/passwd file on the CD is not the
>>> same as the /etc/passwd file on the system I'm restoring, files will
>>> belong to the wrong user when I finally reboot the system on it's own.
>>>  Using tar, I can get around this with the --numeric-owner switch.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to do this with duplicity?  If not, It's a feature I'd
>>> love to see.  Is there a best way to handle this situation?  Right
>>> now, I think I'll have to restore to a directory, chroot, and then do
>>> a complete restore again to reset all the uids and gids.
>>
>> I understand what you want to do, but at the moment duplicity does not
>> support that.  It would be a good idea to submit a support request on
>> the web for the new feature.
>>
>> ...Ken
>>
>>
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