Re: [Duplicity-talk] Restore numeric owner?

[Dylan Martin]

And I just found a bug in my patch:  some files which belong to a user
who's uname exists on the system running duplicity and the restored
system but where the uid is different will have their uid set to the
wrong number.  I'll try and come up with another patch tomorrow.

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Dylan Martin <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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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