Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Restoring only permissions?

[devzero]

Hi Micah, 

this should be not too hard, imho. (in theory)

> everything? I tried to parse some of the meta-files but found that it
> was not that straight forwards.
could you describe your problem with this?

do a zcat mirror_metadata.{date}.snapshot.gz |egrep "File|Uid|Gid" and you will 
see each file/directory followed by owner/group
(btw - question to rdiff-backup authors: why is permission stored in decimal ? 
is this to save space?)

so - what you basically need is a script which reads this file, moves the lines 
into variables and do the appropriate "chmod $Uid:$Gid $File" then.
indeed, this could be nice additional "restore-options" for rdiff-backup 
(--restore-file-owner, --restore-file-permissions, --restore-file-metadata....)

regards
roland



> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Micah Anderson <address@hidden>
> Gesendet: 31.05.06 23:05:27
> An: address@hidden
> Betreff: [rdiff-backup-users] Restoring only permissions?


> Some evil process went and did a chown -R user:user / on a server, and
> I am trying to figure out if there is a way to pull the permissions
> out of rdiff-backup to fix this, without needing to restore
> everything? I tried to parse some of the meta-files but found that it
> was not that straight forwards.
> 
> Thanks,
> micah
> 
> 
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