On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Nov 2011, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
>
> > I assume you have no backups, you naughty boy. We should spank you, and
> > if we need to wear the black high-heeled boots, it will cost you extra.
>
> Keith,
>
>   You assume incorrectly. What I discovered as I copied backups from the
> dirvish collection is that the copies took on the permissions of the
> existing files, the perms were not changed to those that existed yesterday.
> That's when I stopped restoring from the external backup disk and asked for
> help.
>

Rich
>
> OK, try this.  cd to your backup disk and type:

find | xargs stat --format="chmod %a %n"  > doit

Look at doit, to make sure that it's right, then copy it to your real disk
and execute it.

Ali
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