Burning .thunderbird to a cd/dvd changes r/w

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 19:09 +0000, Scott Beamer wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan Wrote:
> 
> > 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).
> > 
> 
> But in this case, he's buring files to a DVD....

True enough.

poc