Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> Option to restore by numeric uid/gid values would be nice, if it's not
> possible already atm..
> 
> Think about 'disaster recovery' case.. Your server crashes.. 
> to recover you do:
> 
> - Install new minimal base OS
> - Install bacula agent
> - Restore the latest backup using Bacula
> 
> /etc/passwd won't have user information when the restore is started.. 
> so files will be restored with wrong owner/group..
> 
> Restoring with numerical uid/gid would be correct in this case.


Surely the simple solution here is:

- Install new minimal base OS
- Install bacula agent
- Restore /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/shadow
- Restore everything else


To speed this up, you could even have a separate backup of an "auth"
fileset containing only those three files.

...Matter of fact, I think I'm going to do that right now.


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