NFS backup share permissions

[ejmerkel]

I recently setup an NFS share for backups which is working OK. However, I noticed that on the proxmox server the files it creates are not owned by root but instead are numeric ID's like

-rw-r--r-- 1 4294967294 4294967294        768 Jan 28 16:03 vzdump-qemu-100-2014_01_28-16_02_41.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 4294967294 4294967294 1416647194 Jan 28 16:03 vzdump-qemu-100-2014_01_28-16_02_41.tar.lzo

Is this going to be a problem when going to restore a VM?

 

[screenie]

there is no need to be owned by root, for a restore the files needs to be readable - what is the case;

you can check on your nfs server which user owns this id and set - i assume it's 'nobody'
can't exactly remember right now but i think in idmapd.conf file is a option to set a user mapping if only the numeric value is shown....

 

[ejmerkel]

there is no need to be owned by root, for a restore the files needs to be readable - what is the case;

you can check on your nfs server which user owns this id and set - i assume it's 'nobody'
can't exactly remember right now but i think in idmapd.conf file is a option to set a user mapping if only the numeric value is shown....

On the NFS server they show being owned as root. They are only numeric on the proxmox server. Do I need to run portmap or rpcbind on each of the servers to get the mapping correct?

Eric

 

[tuxis]

It's not a problem. You should configure root-squashing in your exportsfile (on the server)