Re: apologies for non plain text

["jdow" <jdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "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?

Copying from a Linux machine to a FAT filesystem?
{^_^}