Re: [Bug-tar] Just updated debian wheezy to wheezy-backports, tar now 1.27-1

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 13 January 2016 17:40:57 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:10:41 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > tar -cpsf indices.tar.${TAPENAME} $INDICE_PATH  2>&1 >>
> > dd.report$TAPENAME tar -cpsf configuration.tar.${TAPENAME} $CONFPATH
> >  2>&1 >> dd.report.$TAPENAME
>
> (For what it's worth, I believe "-p" also has no effect during a
> create operation, though tar doesn't abort with an error for that
> combination.
>
> From
>  
> https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/tar_70.html#IDX52
>1
 
The $64k question, Nathan, which doesn't seem to be defined in that link, 
is "does it record every nuance of a files permissions and attributes 
regardless?"

A backup that does not contain that info, and recovers it and applies 
them on recovery from some version of defaults that tar considers safe, 
isn't much of a backup.  A full, bare metal recovery would, TBT, not be 
worth doing when you would need to track down and restore working 
ownership and perms to thousands of files is not something I would ever 
tolerate.

Thanks Nathan

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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