Making backups of several users

[Gabriel Dragffy]

You will need to burn the /home directory which I should imagine contains the 
user account things you want to backup. If all users are able to read from 
one another's /home directory then you won't need to start k3b in superuser 
mode. If, however, others don't have permission to read the other /home 
directories then you will need to start k3b as superuser.

As for backing up the permissions, this is simple, simply add the files you 
wish to burn to the compilation and then click on the BURN button. In the 
next dialogue box you should see entries for WRITING, IMAGE, SETTING, 
VOLUME_DES,C FILESYSTEM, ADVANCED.   Under the FILESYSTEM heading make sure 
that GENERATE ROCK RIDGE EXTENSIONS is enabled and this will preserve the 
permissions. Of course if your new setup isn't similar then these permissions 
may well be obsoleted, but you can at least try.

On Thursday 25 May 2006 02:08, Nigel Ridley wrote:
> I want to upgrade to Dapper on my children's box. Before I do so I want
> to make a backup cd of their personel files, photos etc.
>
> How can I make a backup on a single cd for three different user accounts
> whilst keeping permissions intact?
> Do I use k3b using 'kdesu k3b' - would this preserve their individual
> permissions (obviously using the 'Preserve file permissions (backup)'
> option in k3b)? Or would it all default to root?
>
> I don't want to have to burn seperate cd's for each of the children's
> /home files.
>
> Blessings,
>
> Nigel
>
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