From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 14 13:43:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA03063 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 13:43:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from luke.cpl.net ([206.85.245.131]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA03056 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 13:43:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA01248 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 13:43:43 GMT Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 13:43:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Shawn Ramsey To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: tar ownerships? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Last night, I backed up all the important information on one of our FreeBSD servers, so I could upgrade it to 2.2-GAMMA do to the security flaw in 2.1.5, and the fact it would only boot from floppy. I used tar to back everything up, then put all the files onto another FBSD machine, then ftp'd them back over after this system was back up. Everything worked fine, except the home directorys didnt keep the ownership permisions?! Anyone know why this would happen? I used the following command to back it up : tar cvfz home.tgz /usr/home/* every other directory kept the proper ownerships and permissions(/usr/home did kepp the right file permissions though..) thanks for any ideas.. since the /usr/home dir. isnt TOO big(maybe 30-40 users) I had to change the ownerships by hand. :( When upgrading to 2.2R I don't want to have to do that again! :)