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On 10/18/2011 03:33 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 10/18/2011 01:18 PM, Ian Malone wrote:
>> Yes by default it will have stripped them on archiving. Since they
>> were archived with the full path otherwise you can using -C / will get
>> the original full p
On 10/18/2011 01:18 PM, Ian Malone wrote:
> Yes by default it will have stripped them on archiving. Since they
> were archived with the full path otherwise you can using -C / will get
> the original full path back:
> tar xf marcia.tar.bz2 -C /
> Do this as user 'marcia' and you should be okay for U
On 18 October 2011 19:59, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Frank Cox wrote:
>> The problem you're going to run into is the initial / that you used
>> before home/marcia when you created the tarball. Tar won't restore
>> the initial / so when you extract the files they will end up in
>> home/marcia under w
> From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org
> [users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Frank Cox
> [thea...@sasktel.net]
>
> The easiest solution is to extract the tarball and move (with the mv command)
> the marcia directory into /home on completion.
First... you can always just
Frank Cox wrote:
> The problem you're going to run into is the initial / that you used
> before home/marcia when you created the tarball. Tar won't restore
> the initial / so when you extract the files they will end up in
> home/marcia under whatever directory you're currently in at that
> time.
>
On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:24:34 -0700
Joe Zeff wrote:
> sudo tar -cjf marcia.tar.bz2 /home/marcia
> Assuming that
> the username hasn't changed and that I've put the backup in the same
> place that I made it, what arguments to I give tar to make it put
> everything back exactly where it was? I a
Recently, my sister's Ubuntu box had a puzzling network problem: it
wouldn't accept any DNS numbers but could ping by IP. She didn't have a
backup, recent or otherwise, and there was no practical way to install
any. I created the directory /backup, and in that directory ran this
command:
sud
