Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jl42+ From: jl42+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jay Mathew Libove) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: New: afio backups, directory ownership? Message-ID: Date: 13 Jun 88 18:04:28 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 26 Well, having received many many items telling me to use commands like find -depth -print | afio ....... to backup my Xenix system, I played with it, liked it, did it, and rebuilt my filesystem differently, and restored, no problem. Except: it appears that directory ownership didn't come back as it had been - files did, including all modes (I both backed up and restored as root) but directories all came back as group:bin user:bin I think; or maybe it was group:root user:root. Don't recall. Anyway, this caused trouble in some spots, e.g. /usr/games/lib was writable by programs running as gamesd before... but of course the directory became owned by something else, and all games failed trying to write their score files; /usr/spool/news/... had to be owned by news or the news software couldn't process things there; I lost a few hundred articles... So, what did I do wrong? What funny switch(es) is(are) necessary to get afio to write and restore directory modes too? Thanks! Jay Libove Arpa: Jay.Libove@andrew.cmu.edu Bitnet: Jay.Libove@drycas.bitnet UUCP: ...!{uunet, ucbvax, harvard}!andrew.cmu.edu!Jay.Libove UUCP: ...!{pitt | bellcore} !darth!libove!libove