On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 19:09 +0000, Scott Beamer wrote: > 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.... True enough. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
