surprisingly successful restore from backup

[Ben Pfaff]

Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net> writes:

> On 12 Jul 2000, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 
> >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?)
> 
> if it was read for all, that would be unfortunate if restoring on a
> multiuser system...!!

It might have been -rw-rw----, I don't recall.  (And would you
really restore from backup in multiuser mode?!  I sure didn't.)

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