Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Poor Restoration Performance

[Dean Cording]

That only works if the rdiff-backup server is run as root during the backup.  
For various reasons, my rdiff-backup is run using an unprivileged user. 
Therefore all of the ownership and file permission information is stored in the 
rdiff-backup metadata files and can only be restored using rdiff-backup.


Dean

On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 03:56:07 pm address@hidden wrote:
> But if you do rsync with the appropriate options, it works quite well, I
> have done this several times.  Just exclude the rdiff-backup-data
> directory and be sure to tell it to use the physical ids and you are
> good to go.
> 
> Dean Cording <address@hidden> wrote:
> > The problem with doing a straight copy of the latest backup is that it
> > does not restore the file ownership and permissions information.
> >
> > Dean
> >
> > On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 01:37:59 am address@hidden wrote:
> > > Hi Dean,
> > >
> > > If you are restoring a complete system from the latest backup then the
> > > backup is a current mirror.
> > > So a simple scp or copy with any tool would be what you want no?
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Gavin
> >
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