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["Bryan Hepworth" <bryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Everyone

I'm trying to back up /home to an external hard drive (maxtor usb) and 
wanted to keep the file permissions but when I do a

cp -ar /home /media/usb it complains about not being able to do the 
permissions and they all go across as root instead.

Anyone know where I'm going wrong?

Thanks

Bryan