backing up home directory

backing up home directory

[Christopher Moore]

Hello,
I want to back up my home directory and move it into its own partition.  
I'm thinkig of using tar to accomplish this.  What flags do I need in 
order to preserve the file permissions and dot files?

Thanks
Chris

Re: backing up home directory

[Littlefield, Tyler]

tar -cvvf file.tar dir
Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Moore" <christopher.h.moore@verizon.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 6:06 PM
Subject: backing up home directory


> Hello,
> I want to back up my home directory and move it into its own partition.  
> I'm thinkig of using tar to accomplish this.  What flags do I need in 
> order to preserve the file permissions and dot files?
> 
> Thanks
> Chris
> 
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Re: backing up home directory

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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Try:

tar -cjvfn file.tar.bz2 /home

c=create archive
j=compress with bzip2
v=verbose
f=write archive to file

When you go to extract this, make sure you include -p in your options,
which causes it to set protection information (owner and permissions).
Joe

Christopher Moore wrote:
> Hello,
> I want to back up my home directory and move it into its own partition.  
> I'm thinkig of using tar to accomplish this.  What flags do I need in 
> order to preserve the file permissions and dot files?
> 
> Thanks
> Chris
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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