[support] moving site and retaining permission

[adept techlists - kazar]

> 	Dan Horning <mailto:dan.horning at planetnoc.com>
> June 12, 2011 2:11 AM
>
>
> Kazar,
>
> from the directory you're in
> tar -zcf ~/FILENAME.tar.gz ./
>
> Will create the tar.gz and should store the permissions
>
> then extract the file in the right place with
> tar -zxf ~/FILENAME.tar.gz
>
> that should do it - and then you'll create a backup too....
>
> need more info?
>
ah that makes sense. I do know about man pages but when i try to read 
them and understand what they're really talking about my eyes bleed and 
my brain smokes. I often wish for just plain-english explanations and 
some better examples in man pages.

I will file this info for protecting permissions when tarring and 
untarring files.

However, as per my f/u post submitted a moment ago, I'm realizing I 
don't have to DL/UL at all, my sandbox is simply a subdomain of the 
production server. I can just copy from the command line I think (and 
then restore the target server's original settings.php file)

and here i sat DLing and ULing via sftp, very slow!!!!!

thanks again,

kazar
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