surprisingly successful restore from backup

[Ben Pfaff]

Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net> writes:

> 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?

-rw-rw-r-- root.root, I think.  (Why?)