-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I was contacted off-list last night regarding systems where the GID/UID of the backed up file does not exist when restoring.
The backup was performed on a system that contained GID/UID entries that did not exist on the new server. The user reported an issue involving unexpected chown settings on the restored file set. Specifically, many files were chown root:wheel where he expected them to be something from the missing GID/UID values. He has since solved this issue by adding the missing values to the system and performing the restore again. I have not looked at the code. But I see the above characteristics as the best result. My thoughts indicate we have two options in this situation: 1 - store GID/UID numeric values, but if those numbers mapped to a different group/user on restore, that's bad, Very bad. 2 - store GID/UID names, so we Do The Right Thing(tm) when restoring. If the GID/UID is not found, use root defaults (in this case, root:wheel). - From the scenario described, I think we do option 2 at present. I could not find this point documented anywhere. I'll write something up about it unless someone points me to existing material. - -- Dan Langille BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoMCZMACgkQCgsXFM/7nTxrXgCg5asINvS1opq5mGnTcoKIweZp +vAAoMQj3H8CYnkL5w3o4VA5j/iRvTof =ZBNs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
