On Thursday January 22 2009, Dave Plater wrote:
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Already on 64 bit, all mail intact, only problem I had was I did the backup as root and had to change all the files owners. Regards Dave P
Check out the "-a" (a composite option implying three other options) of the "cp" command. Also, tar works well for one-off archives / backups and will record full user, group and mode information which will be restored if the resulting archive is extracted by root (only root can change the owner or group of a file). There are details (as ever) that behoove you to read the manual or info pages for either of these commands when being used for these slightly less typical cases. E.g., tar will ordinarily record user and group _names_, not IDs. If those names do not exist when and where the archive will be extracted, the option that causes it to use numeric IDs instead (--numeric-owner) may be a better choice (but only if the same user and group name-to-ID assignments will eventually be established in the extraction environment). Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org