Lawson,
The "tartar" script worked very nicely to copy a directory on one
drive to another drive, thanks!
> #!/bin/bash
> tar -C "$1" -cOl . | tar -C "$2" -xpf -
However, I ran into a lot of ownership and permission errors, and so
these were often not preserved. This shifts the issue from tar to
permissions, but perhaps I can sneak it in here because it does bear
on setting up a backup.
My guess is that I need to give user write permission to /mnt/mirror
if I am to preserve user's ownership and permissions. Root can give
that permission, but when the mount point is mounted, the permissions
automagically revert to rwxr-xr-x.
I'm mystified. The cause might well be in /etc/fstab. The relevant
line is:
/dev/sdc1 /mnt/mirror ext2 noauto,user
I find that my mounting the primary partition of the external mass
storage device, I have access to all its partitions. But only root can
write to them.
Haines Brown
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