Just a post to confirm the bug exists on 2.1.7 (the backup was made with mintbackup 2.1.1 and restored using 2.1.7).
For the record, my backup was to a tar archive. Backed up my home directory in preparation for moving from Mint 16 Petra to Mint 17.2 Rafaela via a clean install. The resulting restore seemed to get all my files back, but wasn't very usable because all of the sub-directories were owned by root.
Just a post to confirm the bug exists on 2.1.7 (the backup was made with mintbackup 2.1.1 and restored using 2.1.7).
For the record, my backup was to a tar archive. Backed up my home directory in preparation for moving from Mint 16 Petra to Mint 17.2 Rafaela via a clean install. The resulting restore seemed to get all my files back, but wasn't very usable because all of the sub-directories were owned by root.
The workaround:
sudo chown -R user:user /home/user
repaired the problem.