On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 12:39:54PM +0900, David Leangen enlightened us: ------------< snip <------< snip <------< snip <------------ > >Are you recovering on the same machine you backed up from ? > > No... and I suspect this would be the problem. Thank you for pointing > this out... > > Using this hint, I noticed that user A has UID 502 on the remote > machine, but 502 on the backup server (where I am restoring the data) > refers to user B. >
Yep, that's the problem. > So, obviously, amanda is using UID numerically, which is why the owner > of the files on the backup machine becomes B(502) instead of A(?). This > may be obvious to most people, of course, but this is the first time > I've had to worry about this. > Well, to be exact, tar is storing the UIDs. > So, what do you think would be the best way to manage this in order to > retain the correct permissions during a restore? Should I manually > change UIDs? (Seems VERY difficult to manage!) Or do I need to learn > about NIS, or something? > > Any advice would be very helpful! > That's really outside the scope of this mailing list, but yes, depending on the size of your userbase, NIS/NIS+ or LDAP might be a good idea. If you're only talking about a couple of machines and a couple of users, you can also do things like rsync passwd and shadow files. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
