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[Bryn M. Reeves]

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jdow wrote:
> From: "Bryan Hepworth" <bryan at redfedora.co.uk>
> 
>> Hi Everyone
>>
>> I'm trying to back up /home to an external hard drive (maxtor usb) and
>> wanted to keep the file permissions but when I do a
>>
>> cp -ar /home /media/usb it complains about not being able to do the
>> permissions and they all go across as root instead.
>>
>> Anyone know where I'm going wrong?
> 
> 
> Copying from a Linux machine to a FAT filesystem?
> {^_^}
> 

That's what it looks like.

You can use tar if you need to preserve this information:

tar cvf /media/usb/myfile.tar /home

Then you can restore the archive with:

cd /
tar xvf /media/usb/myfile.tar

If preserving SELinux contexts is important, use star instead.

Kind regards,

Bryn.
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