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uid/gid translate table with 'Full rsync mode' #1434

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Explained by Germar in parent issue #1311:

Filesystems always store the uid and gid for a file. Not the user/groupname. uid/gid are enumerate by the time of creating each user/group. So if you have an old machine with user foo=uid1000 and user bar=uid1001 and you build a new machine but this time you create user bar first, you'll end up with user foo=uid1001 and user bar=uid1000. If you now restore your files (with BiT root) foo can't access his files but all the files from bar...

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