XFS dump & restore

[Andrew Mathews]

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Net Llama! wrote:
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| excellent, thanks.  so i've got this running right now.  oddly though,
| the ownership of the files/dirs on the remote end is not matching up
| with the originals.  is this normal & expected?  for example, stuff in
| various user's $HOME is showing a UID# of 0 for alot of entries, which
| isn't even close to correct.  I see that xfsrestore has a -o option
| which is supposed to restore file and dir owner/group info, but i didn't
| know if that was needed for the original dump.
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Sorry, forgot the first question. As long as you're doing it as root,
you shouldn't need to specify this. The -o flag is really only used when
doing it as a user other than root. During the backup you'll see
everything owned as root. Upon completion, it reassigns everything the
proper attributes, since they're essentially in use by root until the
process has completed. Nothing to worry about. The attribute info is
stored in the xfsrestorehousekeeping directory until completion.
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