On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:32:29AM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: > You can also use tar. AFAIK you can choose (in tar at least) > to preserve names instead of uids/gids, which might work better if the > uids/gids aren't synchronised between the machines.
GNU tar uses user/group names by default, but can be made to use numeric uid/gid with `--numeric-owner'. Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id: 0xD59C360F http://kirriwa.net/john/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
