On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 05:19:29PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> 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.
> 

Good. No problems with the restores then :) I was actually already wondering
why I haven't seen this problem earlier.. but didn't have time to test yet
(only to figure out it used UIDs/GIDs after all).

-- Pasi

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