Dan Horning mailto:dan.horning@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
