Re: cp -ar to external harddrive

[John Wendel <john.wendel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Trevor "TeC" Christian wrote:
> Bryan Hepworth wrote:
>
> > 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
> >  
> >  
>
>
> rsync may also be of some assistance...

I your Maxtor filesystem FAT32 ?

Regards,

John