Re: [Evolution] Backup and Restore

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 21:16, D. D. Brierton wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 19:38, Christopher Ness wrote:
>
> > Don't FAT partitions lose the user permissions on files.  I think tar
> > may know about them though?  Probably not, the user that uncompresses
> > the file will probably have their permissions put on the new
> > uncompressed files.  Anyone else?
>
> The *.tar.gz file itself (when stored on a FAT partition) won't have an
> associated user, group or file permissions, but the files *within* the
> tarball will have these retained (although the user and group are stored
> numerically, not by name, so if you untar the file on another system
> where you have the same user name but different UID and GID numbers then
> things may not work quite as expected).

Full ack.

However, adjusting UID and GID would be easy -- but as it seems it is
unfortunately no issue here...

A stout-hearted command as root will fix this, where USER and GROUP are
the new user and his default group:

# chown -R USER.GROUP /home/USER/evolution/

Same for the ~/.gconf/apps/evolution directory.

...guenther


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