surprisingly successful restore from backup

[Adam]

>> >> >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.)

Maybe if I had a server which had multiple volumes mounted which ran
services people didnt want disrupted, and someone wanted a volume restored
I guess.  It all depends :)