Restoring from backup, preserving uids

[Paul Slootman]

On Sat 02 Aug 2008, Neil Gunton wrote:

> Hi, I use rsync to back up my Linux system to hard drive. I use the -av  
> option, and it preserves uids. However if I reinstall Linux, and try to  

Just a note: I'd recommend also using -H to preserve hard links.
Traditionally a unix / linux system will have many files hard-linked
(although a quick check shows less than I expected).


Paul Slootman