On Tuesday 06 December 2005 11:11 am, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
jdow wrote:
> From: "Bryan Hepworth" <bryan(a)redfedora.co.uk>
>
>> 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?
>
> Copying from a Linux machine to a FAT filesystem?
> {^_^}
That's what it looks like.
You can use tar if you need to preserve this information:
tar cvf /media/usb/myfile.tar /home
Then you can restore the archive with:
cd /
tar xvf /media/usb/myfile.tar
If preserving SELinux contexts is important, use star instead.
Kind regards,
Bryn.
One thing to bear in mind is the max file size for a FAT based
filesystems. I got cought out on that one when it silently truncated
the tar file.
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