On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 08:21:43AM -0500, Jeff Vian wrote: > I think you are confusing /restore/ with /use/. > It can be /restored/ using any system. The ownership is numeric and does > not change on a differnent system. No, I'm not confusing it, and no, the ownership isn't numeric. At least, in my experience. I've created backups of redhat and fedora installs, in single user mode, and restore them under live cds (knoppix or self-made). If I didn't use the option I described, some files would end with different numeric ids than they should. In particular, the knoppix cd has different values for cups and other system accounts, and when restoring the files would use those values. When booting the restored system, those files would have invalid owners/group. > The user ids are a problem if /used/ on a system where the group and > passwd files define different userids for the owners. Not as such. As tar uncompresses using user and group names (in _my_ experience), the extracted files will be usable by the users on that system. Of course, if you consider the "use" of such backup as above, then it still is a problem. Regards, Luciano Rocha
