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Subject: [ale] Making a backup with tar
From: cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Christopher Fowler)
Date: Wed Jan 19 12:51:17 2005

I'm trying to create a file system backup using 'tar -cjpsvf
/bu/full.tar.bz2 /bin /boot /opt /home ...'.  When I extract the files
they are all owned by root.  Should I use the '--same-owner' option on
extraction?

Chris

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