[kennedy]

Had a disk fail... shortly after upgrading to Panther.
I have a new disk, reinstalled Panther, and a am now trying to restore my home directory from a backup made via 'sudo ditto -rsrcFork -V home Backup/home'. That Backup, which was made with Jaguar's ditto, shows the proper owner (user), though not the right group.

I am restoring via the reverse command: 'sudo ditto -rsrcFork -V Backup/home home'. The resultant directory shows owner 'root' and group 'unknown'. What's up with that?!?!?

Am I doing something wrong? Or is Panther's 'ditto' broken? And if broken, how broken is it?

[gorickey]

I don't think it's broken as Carbon Copy Cloner uses this just fine in Panther...

[kennedy]

Originally posted by gorickey:
I don't think it's broken as Carbon Copy Cloner uses this just fine in Panther...

Have you double checked that all of the owner and group settings are correct?

[gorickey]

Originally posted by kennedy:
Have you double checked that all of the owner and group settings are correct?

Yep, CCC was flawless...

[Art Vandelay]

Make sure you're not ignoring privileges on your backup volume.