Burning .thunderbird to a cd/dvd changes r/w
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Wed Jul 1 14:32:36 UTC 2009
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 10:22 +0000, Scott Beamer wrote:
[...]
> But on general principles when backing up data from Linux (or *bsd/
> *solaris/etc) you should tar the directory/directories first. This will
> maintain file permissions and ownership.
>
> For example....
>
> $ tar -cjf thunderbird.tar.bz2 .thunderbird/
>
> Then burn thunderbird.tar.bz2 to your DVD.
>
> See "man tar" for more info.
Or use "cp -p ..." (preserve attributes).
poc
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