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. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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