On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 10:22 +0000, Scott Beamer wrote: [...] > But on general principles when backing up data from Linux (or *bsd/ > *solaris/etc) you should tar the directory/directories first. This will > maintain file permissions and ownership. > > For example.... > > $ tar -cjf thunderbird.tar.bz2 .thunderbird/ > > Then burn thunderbird.tar.bz2 to your DVD. > > See "man tar" for more info.
Or use "cp -p ..." (preserve attributes). poc -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
