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