surprisingly successful restore from backup

[Adam]

On 10 Jul 2000, Ben Pfaff wrote:

>About 1 hour into the untar process, I started exploring the
>restored directories, to make sure that everything was going as
>planned.  However, it turned out that *every* directory was owned
>by root/root with identical permissions, despite the fact that I
>had specified the `--preserve' option to maintain ownership and
>permissions.

Do you happen to recall what the file access permissions were?