On 12/03/2012 12:29 AM, Grant wrote:
For a long time I had rdiff-backup push backups to an external hard disk
attached to my desktop. I moved and put the desktop in storage and now I'm
putting the backup system back together with my laptop taking the place of the
desktop. I noticed that ownership info seems to be lost from the repository
since the hard disk is attached to a different system now. Does rdiff-backup
preserve the ownership info in a different way or is it gone for good?
All the owner and group IDs (both the names and the numeric IDs) are
kept in the mirror_metadata files. By default, rdiff-backup will try to
restore to the same owner and group _names_. You can use the
"--preserve-numerical-ids" option to restore to the same numeric
UIDs/GIDs.
--
Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address.
Do NOT delete it.
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