system backup

Tue Aug 17 14:20:43 UTC 2004

On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 03:10:29PM -0400, Taavi Burns wrote:
> I think that's tar.bz2, but yeah.  It gets better compression ratios.
> 
> You might also want to use p, since that will preserve permissions
> (a VERY good thing for backups of a whole machine!).

That is the default for root user as far as I know.

Lennart Sorensen
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