On Thursday 14 May 2009 16:58:42 Phil Stracchino wrote: > 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.
Probably not necessary. Bacula saves and restores only numeric ids. In report output, it will print real user names if they are available otherwise it reverts to printing the numeric value. Regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
