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2008 Aug 02
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Restoring from backup, preserving uids
Hi, I use rsync to back up my Linux system to hard drive. I use the -av
option, and it preserves uids. However if I reinstall Linux, and try to
restore from the backup hard drive, the owner permissions get all mixed
up, I assume since the numeric uids don't match up with the equivalent
usernames any more. For example, user nobody might have had uid 123 in
my old system, but now in the new