akhiezer wrote: > The reason I didn't mention tar is that on various systems and versions, it > can (at least historically) be a bit fiddly to preserve some > permissions/ownerships/timestamps - depends on how much you're bothered about > that - and sometimes chokes on 'special' files: hence the use instead of the > likes of cpio; perhaps the newer tars are better in this respect.
Which "special" files? The only ones I can think of are on virtual or temporary filesystems and will be recreated when rebooted. One way to make sure is to add --one-file-system when creating the archive. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
