On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 10:34, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Hi,
I have and old tar archive I want to restore. However, I notice that directories from the tar archive are created with the current date and owned by root:root - I'm running tar as root - whereas the files (not directories) are restored with the original permissions, ownerships, and dates.
I use "tar -xvzp -f archive.tgz" for restoring.
Is that normal? Am I doing something wrong, or was the archive created without ownership information for directories?
If it is, as I think, that the tar archive does not have that info, what option, if any, should have been used to create the archive originally?
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
One additional option you may try is: --same-owner although I believe this is a default setting. You may also try using: tar tzvf archive.tgz | less to see the ownership and perms associated with the files. -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)