Linda, On Wednesday March 13, 2002 04:18, you said something about: > I have always used cpio for backup. However I decided to > play with different ways to backup that I could write to a > a cdrom since they are alot cheaper than zip drives. The > cd burner is not any of the linux computers but I tried > using mkisofs to create a cd image and than burn it on > a different computer. When I did this all of the files > are owned by root and rx. This is okay for somethings > but not so great for others. So I dug around and found > pax. It seems to work great and you can restore files > with the same owner and permissions. > However if I use > pax -w -f /tmp/home-3-12-02 /home/* > It does not archive any file or directory that begins with . > this means things like .fetchmailrc are not backed up. > Does anyone have any suggestions for creating a backup that > allows the backup to be done to a file rather than a device > (so I can put it on a cd image) and still allows me to > keep ownership and permission, backup subdirectories without > listing them individualy, and get all the files even ones that > start with .
1. Use Mondo. http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ This is by far the best and most flexible backup I've used. It is also good for disaster recovery. 2. If that won't suit your needs, perhaps try tar. Then once everything you want is tarred up, then do a mkisofs on the tar file(s). All of it can be scripted. 3. I thought (it's been a while) that pax could do . files. But you have to use patterns. YMMV. Hope it helps. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
