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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