New: afio backups, directory ownership?

Jay Mathew Libove jl42+ at andrew.cmu.edu
Tue Jun 14 04:04:28 AEST 1988


Well, having received many many items telling me to use commands like

find <names ...> -depth -print | afio .......

to backup my Xenix system, I played with it, liked it, did it, and
rebuilt my filesystem differently, and restored, no problem. Except:
it appears that directory ownership didn't come back as it had been -
files did, including all modes (I both backed up and restored as
root) but directories all came back as group:bin user:bin I think; or
maybe it was group:root user:root. Don't recall. Anyway, this caused
trouble in some spots, e.g. /usr/games/lib was writable by programs
running as gamesd before... but of course the directory became owned
by something else, and all games failed trying to write their score
files; /usr/spool/news/... had to be owned by news or the news
software couldn't process things there; I lost a few hundred
articles...

So, what did I do wrong? What funny switch(es) is(are) necessary to
get afio to write and restore directory modes too?

Thanks!

Jay Libove
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