On 06/10/2020 17:54, Jim Jackson wrote:
> One thing I have added recently is --numeric-ids option as I found that
> while I keep all user uids equal across my system, some of the system
> uids - those less than 1000 e.g. for various demon services etc - change
> depending on distro and version of distro it seems. So some of my backup
> had their uids changed to match to same username on the NFS server. When
> I copied back after a disk break I got a few niggles. I don't know why I
> thought it should have mapped back - but ... who knows. The --numeric-ids
> means I dont have to care how I put the files back.

I had exactly the same issue when I tried to recover a Pi from a backup
for the first time, and it took a bit of sorting out.

Although most of my Pi's have been cloned from a previous one, the ids
vary depending on the order certain services are installed, so they can
quickly get out of step.

I did think of harmonising them across all dozen Pi's, but it would be a
lot of work to change all files on each to match the new values. Using
--numeric_ids is a much quicker solution.

---druck

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