Restore the correct file owner and group fail if they are not present in system

Bug #1495295 reported by Germar
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Back In Time
Triaged
High
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Bug Description

If the user/group is not set up in the system which is running a restore BIT will fail to restore the owner/group of a file. It will fail with 'Failed to get UID for FOO: getpwnam(): name not found: FOO'

At least without 'Full rsync mode'. Could be different if 'Full rsync mode' is activated (not tested yet).

WORKAROUND:
This will happen if you restore your system from a LiveCD. Booting the restored system into recovery mode and running 'backintime --restore' again on root terminal will help for now.

Germar (germar)
Changed in backintime:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
Germar (germar)
description: updated
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