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I have a /mnt directory nfs mounted to a system from another system.  I
am trying to copy over a file system in this way:

 ufsdump 0f - /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s5 | (cd /mnt; ufsrestore xvf -)

It starts copying the directories and all but they are all owned by
nobody.  Is there a way to do this and maintain the ownership?  The
users are all created on the other system.  I have rw=root for the
directory in dfstab.  How can this be done?

Robin a crit :

Quote:> I have a /mnt directory nfs mounted to a system from another system.  I
> am trying to copy over a file system in this way:

>  ufsdump 0f - /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s5 | (cd /mnt; ufsrestore xvf -)

> It starts copying the directories and all but they are all owned by
> nobody.  Is there a way to do this and maintain the ownership?  The
> users are all created on the other system.  I have rw=root for the
> directory in dfstab.  How can this be done?

in your export you should use this option
root=clientmachine

example:
share -F nfs -o rw=server1,root=server1 yourexport

Well, I tried that and it's still creating the files as owned by
nobody.  Certainly someone else has had to ufsdump a filesystem from
one machine to another across the network?

Note that ufsrestore does not set the owner on directories until it is
completely done creating everything.  I am not sure from your post if
you were checking while ufsrestore was running or after it had finished.
If you were checking while it was running, try letting it finish and
check again.  Also, if you changed how the filesystem was shared, you
might have to dismount it and remount it before the change takes effect.
--
Tom Schulz

Yes, I've done it a million times, or at least about 50,000 times to
be more accurate.  However, I've never used NFS to do it.  It's much
easier to pipe the ufsdump data through rsh or ssh or something:

        ufsdump 0f - /foo |

Is there a particular need to use NFS in your case?

   - Logan