backups to cd and other disks and maintaining file attribs

[Monty J. Harder]

"hanasaki" <hanasaki at hanaden.com> wrote:

> Any recommendations on how to maintain the attribs
> (user/group/perms/dates...) of files when they are burned to a
> cd/cdrw/dvdram, or copied to another partition, and later need to be
> restored to their original form?

You can use tar, which preserves all of that...

> comments on how to handle links?

..and stores symlinks as symlinks, although it doesn't do so well with
hard-linked files.  (This is one reason that I generally prefer symlinks.)


  Or, if there's room, just DD the entire filesystem over to DVD.