XFS dump & restore

[Net Llama!]

On 06/01/03 12:43, Andrew Mathews wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
> <snip>
> |
> | 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.
> |
> <snip>
> 
> 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.

Excellent, thanks.  Although i've hit a different wall.  The xfsdump has 
locked up the laptop hard, where it was running, TWICE, at different 
points of completion.  Ugh.

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