>>>>> On Thu, 14 May 2009 13:35:22 -0700, David Newman said:
> 
> 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.

The original problem is still a mystery then.

I suggest doing a test with some arbitrary UID/GIDs that are not known.
Create a file and change its owner/group e.g. with chown 12345:12345.  Check
that ls -l shows 12345 and then backup and restore these files and see what
happens.


> >>> 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.

That shouldn't cause a problem.

__Martin

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