Re: how to preserve permission and ownership ?

On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 07:23:39PM -0800, sp@rt@cus wrote:
> ive created a backup server with a fat32 hd mounted  and  it will be
> used to  hold my backup files.  After  backup  and compressing the
> files , i  transfered  the backup files  to my backup server on
> /home/backup.  NO problem after decomressing the files, permission and
> ownership are intact. I got this problem when i tried to move the
> backup files to the fat32 mounted hard disk. All my permission are
> gone when i untar them. how can i preserve the perm and ownership for
> these files ?

FAT32 does not have a concept of ownership or permissions, so you will
really lose these if you back up your files by copying them to a FAT32
filesystem. You can back up your files by storing them in tar files
(optionally compressed), though. That will allow you to preserve the
ownership and permissions of the files within the tar file.

If this is already how you're doing things and are still not able to
preserve the ownership and permissions, you are probably extracting the
archive as a regular user. This is fine if all files are owned by you,
but otherwise, you want to extract the archive as the root user to
preserve ownership and permissions. Alternatively you can experiment
with using the --preserve parameter. Consult the tar(1) manual page for
more details.

Good luck.

 --> Jijo

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