Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup problems (FC4 -> VFAT)

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Wiebe Cazemier <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Sat, 15 Oct 2005 13:30:59 +0200
> 
> I know, I liked the old way better :( The old way isn't possible
> anymore, which I think it should be. Let me explain.
> 
> You use rdiff-backup to backup the entire system (putting aside my
> concerns about possible mtime presevervations of the package
> manager, which I described above). Your HD crashed, and you're going
> to restore your backup. To do so, you boot into Knoppix, somehow
> install rdiff-backup, and restore the backup to a new
> HD. Rdiff-backup will match the UID's and GID's of the filesystem to
> the /etc/passwd and /etc/group of Knoppix. Let's consider a file
> which belonged to "postmaster" on the old sytem, and which had UID
> 14. If "postmaster" has user ID 15 on Knoppix, the restored file
> will have UID 15. But, because on the system that's being restored,
> UID 15 is "man", the file which should belong to "postmaster", now
> belongs to "man" (after booting the restored system of course).

Ok I get it.  I think this feature was requested before but I never
understood the use before.  Shouldn't be hard to add---I added a
support request at

https://savannah.nongnu.org/support/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=104755

and should get to it by the next version.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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