Back up help

[Andrew Shugg]

Sridhar Dhanapalan said:
> A major caveat wrt 7zip is that it does not store the owners and groups of 
> files. I wouldn't use this format if storing correct permissions is of 
> importance.

True; the p7zip man page (man 7z) details how to use tar to do that, in
conjunction with p7zip.  See the "Backup and limitations" section of the
man page.

Andrew.

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