Author: jdavis35 <backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:36:08 -0400
Hi all, I have (finally) done a backup and restore test that actually boots... after two weeks of trial and error. However, I am now facing issues with the numeric-ids option causing failures for cer
Author: Tino Schwarze <backuppc.lists AT tisc DOT de>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:58:00 +0200
Hi Jon, I suppose, you're talking about bare metal restore? Then you should backup/restore your /etc/passwd, /etc/group etc. as well. They contain the UID->Login mapping and all should be well. HTH,
Author: jdavis35 <backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:55:26 -0400
Thanks for the reply, Tino. Yes, this is a bare metal restore. I have found that, specifically, the perms and ownership are wrong only for files directly under my partitions; all the other subfiles a
Author: jdavis35 <backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:50:06 -0400
Also, I forgot to mention earlier, that I had to chmod 755 /. and /.. - the wrong permissions here were causing failures to a couple of services, such as mysql. This is really weird how much of manua