Re: [cobalt-users] Disaster recovery

[Gerald Young <me@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi jason
This is very much a last resort backup as it 
> will not correctly set file permissions / passwords etc. 

I thought if you make a tar
tar -cf tarfilename *
then untar with
tar -xvf tarfilename

it does preserve permissions check out 
man tar

tar also has switches to just add files that are newer than an archive
-u
> 
> As far as the built in Backup and Restore are concerned - forget they 
> even exist. Do not use them because they do not work and cobalt are 
> aware of this. 
Im not game to use them im downloading a .raq file then running the stripheader
cgi to leave me a .tar.gz file works well for me.
b w Gerald Y