Dan Horning
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