[CLUE-Tech] tar question

[Bruce Ediger]

On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Mike Staver wrote:

> I have a quick tar question - what is the best way to compress my entire
> /home diretory and move it to another machine while preserving all file
> attributes?

cd /home
tar czf /tmp/mstaver.home.tar.gz mstaver

That sort of thing always seems to work for me, provided that
my user ID (name, not number) exists on both matchines.

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