Re: Backing up with tar

[John L. <lor...@uk...>]

Hi Roman

, On 09-Nov-01, you wrote:

> Hi,

> On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Glenn Hisdal wrote:

>> > I assume that when I need to restore them, I would use the usual tar
>> > -xzvf <tar.file> and that would write them back in the correct place?
>> 
>> yes.

> Note, that tar restores into the current directory (unless changed with
> -C). You probably also want to add -p, to restore all permissions.

OK thanks.

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