Compress dir keep file/dir permissions

powadha · 11-14-2006, 05:41 PM

I'm moving a CMS (xoops) from one server to another. I want to compress the site on the current server and unpack it later on the new one. Using tar will the specific file permissions on the different files and dirs be saved? (which is important for a cms).

If not, is there a command which will compress the dir and save the permissions?

Regards

powadha · 11-14-2006, 07:07 PM

Seems to work with: tar -pczf dirname.tar.gz /path/to/dir/