Restoring from a tarball

[Larry Brower]

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On 10/18/2011 03:33 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 10/18/2011 01:18 PM, Ian Malone wrote:
>> Yes by default it will have stripped them on archiving. Since they
>> were archived with the full path otherwise you can using -C / will get
>> the original full path back:
>> tar xf marcia.tar.bz2 -C /
>> Do this as user 'marcia' and you should be okay for UIDs on extraction
>> (it will also prevent it accidentally extracting somewhere else on the
>> filesystem).
> 
> Note that I did this as root (using sudo, as it's on Ubuntu) to make 
> sure all permissions were preserved.  Wouldn't it be best to restore it 
> the same way, for the same reason?  And, there was exactly one user on 
> the old box, as there will be on the new installation.


Yes, you would want to do this as root.
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