On Sun, 01 Jun 2014 04:04:29 +0200, Horatio Leragon <hlera...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
Andrei POPESCU, Saturday, May 31, 2014 10:35 PM:
Probably simplest is to switch to root an copy the files to the stick.
How do I switch to root? During installation of Debian, I expressly
clicked "No" to "Allow login as root" option.
sudo -i
Also if the stick is FAT32 you will loose all information about
permissions, so if you ever copy them back you have to adjust those
by hand accordingly.
Please show me how to adjust "those permissions" back to their original
forms.
Assumed there's no data on the stick, IOW assumed you plan to copy to a
stick, then don't copy the directories and files directly, but write the
directories and files to a tar archive, so all the permissions are
preserved and you're free to compress the archive.
cd /path/to/dir/you/want/to/copy/
tar --exclude=file_that_should_not_be_copied -czf
/pa/th/backup_file.bak.tar.gz * .hidden_file
You should read some howtos about shell globbing, before you write data to
an archive.
You should read some howtos about how to use tar, e.g. how to restore data
from the archive.
Regards,
Ralf
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