[ILUG] Backing up a X3 partition

[Ruairi Newman]

On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 21:51, fuzzbucket wrote:
> Darragh wrote:

> >
> >  I don't mind what tool I use as long as it does it right and I can
> >  back it up to /mnt/vfat/ which is where the fat32 partition is
> >  mounted. I'm about to mess around with the gnome speech package and
> >  I know that I'll probably mess something up.
> >
> 
> FAT32 doesn't support UNIX type file permissions (the owner changes to 
> root & all files appear +x) so it depends on what type of files. I guess 
> archiving tools like tar would maintain permissions.
> I keep my music, vids, gimp art etc. on FAT partitions I never bothered 
> to reformat without any major issues.
> 

GNU tar supports maintaining permissions using the switch "-p" or
"--preserve-permissions".  Obviously, using dd would also maintain
permissions.

Regards,

Ruairí

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