On 5/14/09 8:29 AM, Martin Simmons wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 14 May 2009 06:26:00 -0700, David Newman said:
>> On 5/14/09 4:56 AM, Martin Simmons wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Wed, 13 May 2009 18:57:43 -0700, David Newman said:
>>>> A server crashed here after an upgrade/reboot. Much mayhem and sleep
>>>> deprivation ensued. Ugh.
>>>>
>>>> Bacula came through with most of the files needed, but restored
>>>> everything as root:wheel. This was from running bconsole, running
>>>> restore, picking the Job IDs, and selecting files.
>>>>
>>>> The UID/GIDs did not exist on the new system at the time of the restore,
>>>> but they do now. In this case I needed the files first so I'd know what
>>>> UIDs/GIDs to use on the new system.
>>>>
>>>> How to preserve ownership/groups during a restore?
>>> I would expect restore to do that automatically, using the numeric
>>> UIDs/GIDs.
>>> This should work even if they aren't in the user/group databases.
>> That didn't happen, at least not for me.
>
> Can you repeat it by doing another restore now that you have the user/groups
> set up correctly?
Yes. This time the files were restored with the correct UID/GIDs.
>
> Does OpenBSD run some kind of periodic security job that resets the ownership
> of files with unknown UIDs/GIDs?
No. Its security checks will complain about incorrect
ownership/permissions on some files, but it will not change them.
>
>
>>> Did you restore all files in the backup?
>> No. In bconsole, I did this:
>>
>> 1. restore
>>
>> 2. Option 3, pick relevant job IDs (eight of them, in this case -- one
>> full plus seven incremental backups)
>>
>> 3. cd /directory_to_be_restored
>>
>> 4. mark *
>>
>> 5. done
>>
>> 6. select host to be restored
>>
>> 7. proceed
>
> OK, that should definitely set the UIDs/GIDs of all of the marked files. Note
> however that it won't set them for /directory_to_be_restored or any
> directories that Bacula created above this.
Might that be the problem? I created a /home/bacula/bacula-restore
directory on the new server as root before running the restore.
>
>
>>> Does bls show non root:wheel ownership for the files on these volumes?
>> Sorry, me bacula newbie, not familiar with bls. Where do I run this
>> (director or client) and what syntax to use?
>
> bls is a command line program that you run on the Storage Daemon, probably
> from /usr/local/sbin. The syntax is like this:
>
> bls -V MyVolume MyStorage
Thanks. Yes, bls shows non-root:wheel ownership for files on the
restored volumes.
dn
>
> MyVolume is the name of the volume and MyStorage is the device "name" given in
> the bacula-sd.conf. If you are using tapes, unmount the drive from bconsole.
> If you put your bacula-sd.conf in a non-standard place, then you'll need to
> pass the -c option as well (see bls -\?).
>
> __Martin
>
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