forgot to run as root...

Morgan Read via rsync <[email protected]> Sun, 8 Dec 2024 14:28:20 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.network.rsync.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hello List,

I've been running rsync for must be 20 years by now, but over that time 
the holes in the Swiss cheese that passes for my brain seem to have 
grown larger and been filled with budgie seed and sawdust.

I once used rsync as my regular backup solution but now settle for a 
borg backend with pika up front and perhaps the lack of regular use 
caused me to run:
`[admin@server mymachine-home]$ rsync -aAX [email protected]:/home/ .`
And, after doing what I needed to do with /home on mymachine, I put it 
all back:
`[admin@server mymachine-home]$ rsync -avAX . [email protected]:/home/`
Only to discover - obviously in hindsight - that I'd failed to run as 
root and now the whole of /home (appears) to belongs to `admin` (a user 
that doesn't exist on mymachine).

So, my strategy:
1/ Assume that the wrong owner is the only problem thown up by the above 
- is that assumption correct?
2/ Recursively chown each users home directory to their corect owner;
3/ Use borg/ pika to mount a recent backup and diff the ownership 
between the backup and respective home directory to discover anything 
owned by something other than the respective user - and labouriously 
correct.

I wonder if anyone would be good enough to confirm whether or not the 
above sounds like a reasonable strategy?

Very many thanks for listening.

M
-- 
Morgan Read
Grande Bretagne

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