Comment 16 for bug 569261

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.