Patrick O'Callaghan Wrote: > On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 10:22 +0000, Scott Beamer wrote: [...] >> But on general principles when backing up data from Linux (or *bsd/ >> *solaris/etc) you should tar the directory/directories first. This will >> maintain file permissions and ownership. >> >> For example.... >> >> $ tar -cjf thunderbird.tar.bz2 .thunderbird/ >> >> Then burn thunderbird.tar.bz2 to your DVD. >> >> See "man tar" for more info. > > Or use "cp -p ..." (preserve attributes). > But in this case, he's buring files to a DVD.... Scott -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
