diff --git a/docs/deployment/pull-backup.rst b/docs/deployment/pull-backup.rst index f516e0ae3..97accf8dd 100644 --- a/docs/deployment/pull-backup.rst +++ b/docs/deployment/pull-backup.rst @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ completely in every aspect from such a backup. mappings, assuming they only come from files (/etc/passwd and group). This assumption might be wrong, e.g. if users/groups also come from ldap or other providers. - Thus, it might be better to use ``--numeric-owner`` and not archive any + Thus, it might be better to use ``--numeric-ids`` and not archive any user or group names (but just the numeric IDs) and not use chroot. Creating a backup @@ -181,13 +181,13 @@ When doing a full restore, we restore all files (including the ones containing the ID-to-name mapping, ``/etc/passwd`` and ``/etc/group``). Everything will be consistent automatically if we restore the numeric IDs stored in the archive. So there is no need for a chroot environment; we just mount the client file system -and extract a backup, utilizing the ``--numeric-owner`` option: +and extract a backup, utilizing the ``--numeric-ids`` option: :: sshfs root@host:/ /mnt/sshfs cd /mnt/sshfs - borg extract --numeric-owner /path/to/repo::archive + borg extract --numeric-ids /path/to/repo::archive cd ~ umount /mnt/sshfs