[cobalt-developers] CMU and Tar to transfer sites from one Raq3 to another

[Tian <tian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have noticed that the Raq 3 CMU (RaQ3-all-CMU Release 1.1-22)
does not seem to preserve file owners when you transfer sites from
one Raq 3 to another. For example, if you have FrontPage enabled
for a site, when you restore the web page files, all of the files will
have the owner "nobody" regardless of what the owner was of the
files on the machine that you backed up from.

I am trying to use tar to back up the files for each site and then
restore the files onto the new Raq 3. When I restore the files on
to the new Raq 3, I have noticed that the group for each file is
changed from a site number (ex. site23) to just a number (ex.
144). If I use chgrp to change the file/directory owners to the
correct group (based on what the new site number is), will
there be any problems?

Also, I am using the following tar options to backup/restore
the files (I'm not a Unix expert.. yet):
backup: tar cvfW [tar file] [directory to back up]
restore: tar xvf [tar file] [location to restore to]
Will these options back up and restore all of the required file
information (owner, permissions, etc.) for everything to work
correctly?

Tian.