cp -ar to external harddrive

[John Wendel]

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