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

[Philippe Schelté]

Jakob Unterwurzacher a écrit , Le 06.01.2010 16:18:
> 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
>   
Hi Jakob,

in fact the regression faild because probably of a corrupt gzip file 
lying around, It was faster to reinstall all the stuff and pick up 
config files needed than trying to restore the backup for rdiff, sorry 
but I missed time to debug this part.

Best regards

Philippe