Re: disaster upgrading to elf
>My system is still dead in the water. The problem with tar (bug
>#2146) prevents me from restoring my system from tape. I have lost
>much precious time and am now very far behind on my work. I find it
>hard to believe that no one else has encountered this problem. Bdale,
>I see that you are the new tar maintainer. Is there a fix for this
>problem? Am I overlooking something obvious?
I have restored my system from backup twice without any problem. All
I did was...
umask 000
cd /
tar xvzf /backup/linux.tar
All userid, groupid, and permissions were set correctly. (Note: umask must
me set or it will apply to all files that are extracted.
Brian
( bcwhite@bnr.ca )
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