Re: Burning .thunderbird to a cd/dvd changes r/w

[Jim <mickeyboa sbcglobal net>]

On 07/01/2009 10:32 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 10:22 +0000, Scott Beamer wrote:
> [...]
>    
> > But on general principles when backing up data from Linux (or *bsd/
> > *solaris/etc) you should tar the directory/directories first. This will
> > maintain file permissions and ownership.
> >
> > For example....
> >
> > 	$ tar -cjf thunderbird.tar.bz2 .thunderbird/
> >    	
> > Then burn thunderbird.tar.bz2 to your DVD.
> >
> > See "man tar" for more info.
> >      
> Or use "cp -p ..." (preserve attributes).
>
> poc
>
>    
Boy I do wished I could remember all the shell commands, It's amazing 
how powerful  the shell really is in Linux.