Re: Permissions Question
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 08:25:15PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 06:32:47PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > "Thomas H. George" <tom@tomgeorge.info> wrote:
> Before shutting the old system down I burnt /home/tom to a cd.
> Then I switched out the hardware, did a netinst with the stock
> 2.6.18-4-amd64 kernel. When netinst succeded I copied the
> contents of the cd into /home. Voila, tom resurrected.
>
> I don't immediately see why this should not have worked
> flawlessly. I'll puzzel it out and, in the meantime, login as
> dummy.
>
With what means did you backup /home? Were the permissions respected?
Personally, I backup to a tarball then burn that tarball file to cd
(split if need be).
Doug.
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