Thanks for the advice; Ed, Jason, John, Len, Lewi, Mike, et al.
I got the job done using tar, but as Lewi notes, there is the option to
retain permissions in mkisofs, I'll try that as well.
Thanks,
Chris
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I used this for backup my "home" in CDRW media,
# mkisofs -R -l -L -V BACKUP -P ICHTUS -uid 500 -gid
500 -hide-rr-moved -graft-points /ichtus/=/home/ichtus
| cdrecord dev=0,0,0 fs=4096k -v driveropts=burnfree
speed=4 -eject -
change to your own setting for some parameter
Christopher Russell wrot
The folks who mentioned the rights problems with Joliet are correct, you
need to use tar. However, one thing that they didn't mention...you also
need to ensure that the uid's and gid's for your users are the same between
the two machines. Check in /etc/passwd and /etc/group. If the uids and
gids
Christopher Russell wrote:
I am trying to copy /home/user from one RH9 machine to another RH9
machine, using a CDR; but the files and directories lose their
permissions. How should this be done properly, please?
WHAT I'VE DONE SO FAR:
I used a CDR, and syntax from RH8 Bible by Negus, p471.
mkisofs
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 11:19:24AM -0400, Christopher Russell wrote:
> I am trying to copy /home/user from one RH9 machine to another RH9
> machine, using a CDR; but the files and directories lose their
> permissions. How should this be done properly, please?
Well, CDR's are read-only once initial
I think you'll have better luck using tar.
tar zcvf /var/tmp/user.cd /home/usr
Then dump the tar in an iso and burn that to the cd.
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