[ale] Making a backup with tar

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Wed Jan 19 12:51:17 EST 2005


I'm trying to create a file system backup using 'tar -cjpsvf
/bu/full.tar.bz2 /bin /boot /opt /home ...'.  When I extract the files
they are all owned by root.  Should I use the '--same-owner' option on
extraction?

Chris




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