-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 March 2004 01:51 pm, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
With either of these methods I assume you must be root or can it be done as user?\
If you have more than 1 user and want to back up /home to a new directory /home2 all in 1 pass then yes that would be easiest. If you want to copy/backup files and directories that you have full access to and are backing up to a directory you have full access to (say /home/yourname to /home2/yourname where you already have full access rights to /home2/yourname), then you will not need to become root in order to use these methods. See ya - -- dh Don't shop at ZipZoomFly.com! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXltzBwgxlylUsJARAkXLAJ9Sphzt46QjSnoV3Q8rpZbciymFTACcC8XH p9xyuBkqHlgOLIYIUoxzvR0= =tKAc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----