[Novices] Re: Novices Digest, Vol 12, Issue 2

[yvh11a]

> Why the "-U",  that implies you are updating a tar file - that is -
> adding files to the end of an existing backup.... whereas  "x" implies
> you are extracting.

As I understand it, the little u means to update, while the big U
means to restore files even if there are newer files on the disk,
which is what I think I want, since I'm trying to restore a backup of
an older system.
 
> If you backed up relative to "/" you probably want to add a "-/" [you
> should really grasp what that means first].

That did it perfectly.  Now all I have to do is get everything working
right again.  However, that's my problem, not yours.  :)
 
> The files you see scrolling past have probably been extracted relative
> to you current working directory.  Do an "ls" and see if the topmost
> folders in the archive now exist in your current directory.

Yep.  That's where they were.

> Probably a good idea to add "-acl" to both create and extract commands
> if your filesystem supports ACLs (Resierfs, XFS, JFS).

I'm using ext3 because it was the default for Fedora.  Never used ACLs
before that I know of but I'll see what I can learn about them.

Thanks!