Re: tar and '-p' option

2001-11-10 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Lance Hoffmeyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > When backing up directories do I need the -p > option to save file attributes, ownership... > or do I use -p during restore to do this, OR > do I not need -p and it is done by default? > > I don't really understand this option and I > want to m

Re: tar and '-p' option

2001-11-10 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > When backing up directories do I need the -p > option to save file attributes, ownership... > or do I use -p during restore to do this, OR > do I not need -p and it is done by default? > I use -p on the extraction side and it works fine. Also, from the man page: -p, --s

tar and '-p' option

2001-11-10 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
When backing up directories do I need the -p option to save file attributes, ownership... or do I use -p during restore to do this, OR do I not need -p and it is done by default? I don't really understand this option and I want to make sure that if I have to recover a filesystem that when I untar