Re: [rdiff-backup-users] unable to restore files

[Jakob Unterwurzacher]

Alex Samad schrieb:
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 05:14:57PM +0100, Philippe wrote:
>>> If you just want the newest version of your files back you can simply
>>> copy them from the backup directory using FTP or rsync or whatever.
>>>
>>> Jakob
>>>
>> Thanks for the reply Jakob,
>>
>> the problem is that I have a whole system to restore so I need to keep the
>> ownership of the files.
> 
> rsync will keep permissions and uid/gid 
> rsync -aHSz

The problem seems to be that the files all have the wrong owner because
the backup was not done as root (so the files could not be chown'ed).
Now rdiff-backup has to be used for the restore to set the correct
owners again.

Philippe, have you tried regressing manually?
http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/FAQ.html#regress_failure


Jakob