How to change my backup's owner from root to my user name?

[Lynwood]

Hello,

I still have Ultimate Edition 2.6 (in somewhat compromised form) and feel prevented from modifying it, let alone updating it, until I'm satisfied that my backups work. I'm using Back in Time, and it's backing up just fine. The problem is that, when I installed my backup filesystem, ext4, it automatically made the owner root. So I can't restore my backups. Correct em if I'm wrong. I want to know how to change the backup fs's owner from root to my user name. How do I do that?

This is a huge sticking point. I'll be eternally grateful for the answer to this. Thank you.

Ray

[TheeMahn]

Hello,

I still have Ultimate Edition 2.6 (in somewhat compromised form) and feel prevented from modifying it, let alone updating it, until I'm satisfied that my backups work. I'm using Back in Time, and it's backing up just fine. The problem is that, when I installed my backup filesystem, ext4, it automatically made the owner root. So I can't restore my backups. Correct em if I'm wrong. I want to know how to change the backup fs's owner from root to my user name. How do I do that?

This is a huge sticking point. I'll be eternally grateful for the answer to this. Thank you.

Ray

Lets say the drive in question is mounted at /media/backup:

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sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /media/backup/


man chown in the terminal for more information.

[Lynwood]

Thank you. If I change the owner's name of my backup fs (it's ext4 on an external hdd, mounted at /media) to my desktop's user (account) name, will my Back in Time backups be restoreable? I'll follow your advice shortly. Thanks again.

[Lynwood]

It seems to have worked. Now I have to be sure I know how to restore a folder &/or file. The Restore option seems to be available.

[Lynwood]

Here I go again. I'm very sorry for the interruption: I've been very ill for a month now.

Your instruction worked ... for a day. In the next night's backup, Backintime/Rsync backed up my data as root again and has ever since. The idea is to back up my critical information so it's immediately restore-able. It seems to me that, if I back it up as my username (I see nowhere in Backintime's settings to set this), just as I normally use the backed up information, it'd be immediately restore-able. I can't tell whether there's a constraint/limitation in my ext4 fs (I used Gparted to install both a FAT32 partition and this ext4 partition and fs) or it's a constraint/limitation/design of Backintime or Rsync. I emailed Backintime's dev but have gotten no response.

I know this isn't difficult, I just don't know the answer.

Again, I'll appreciate good direction. Thanks.