Hello, Andrei!

On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Andrei V.Loukinykh wrote:

> I'm trying to backup some of my directories (/etc /usr ...) to other
>machine (also Linux) via NFS.
> Can I preserve all UID's,GIDs ?
>So far I haven't succeeded.
>
> My machine - Slackware 3.3 2.0.38
> Remote - Slackware 4.0 2.2.6

Do you have uids/gids synchronized ? If yes, use tar -p, if no, then:

cd /; tar pscvf - etc usr ... | cat > /remote/nfs/path/filename.tar

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