Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup problems (FC4 -> VFAT)

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Wiebe Cazemier <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Wed, 05 Oct 2005 17:17:38 +0200

> The other being that rdiff-backup matches UIDs and GIDs against the
> /etc/passwd of the current system. So, if you're restoring a backup
> by means of a bootable CD, like Knoppix, all your (system) users
> will have UID's that don't match the system you backed up, but those
> of the boot CD. There is no way to override this behaviour.

That was the old default, the current default is the preserve unames
and gnames (not uids and gids) so restoring to a new system should
work.  You can modify this behavior with the --user-mapping-file or
--group-mapping-file switches.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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