On 07/01/2009 10:32 AM, 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).
poc
Boy I do wished I could remember all the shell commands, It's amazing how powerful the shell really is in Linux.