Restore with numeric uid or with username

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This thread is already too long, and yet is the first time I am seeing this topic (I joined less than 3 years ago).

Just a quick note to say rsync defaults to user/group names; you have to say --numeric-ids to make it use just the numbers. From the manpage description of that option it would seem that a restore on a different machine where the usernames exist but have a different UID, will do the right thing.

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Any news about this?

I can confirm with rsync it restores with default user/group.

Restic on the other hand restores the ids only.

I believe restic should use a similar approach like rsync. Restore by default with user/group and if not exist, fallback to numeric ids.

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I may repeat what I said already.

If the current behaviour will be changed, everyone restoring using a rescue media or live cd would be screwed.

So best thing here would be a flag, I think. Like rsync has its - - numeric-ids

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Yes this would have to be implemented using a new flag. Please open a Github issue if there isn’t one so far. We don’t track feature requests on the forum.

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I won’t open a PR, I am the one here who is happy with the current behaviour :blush:

I just said that IF something will be done on that, please keep it as it is and implement other behaviour as an optional flag.

Thank you for the great work by the way. I couldn’t imagine my life without restic anymore.