Recently, my sister's Ubuntu box had a puzzling network problem: it wouldn't accept any DNS numbers but could ping by IP. She didn't have a backup, recent or otherwise, and there was no practical way to install any. I created the directory /backup, and in that directory ran this command: sudo tar -cjf marcia.tar.bz2 /home/marcia Then, I used ftp to transfer it to my laptop, as there's more room on it than on my desktop. This was a Good Thing! Upgrading from a LiveCD worked, but it wouldn't boot. Nuke/pave/reinstall, ditto. After checking, the boot failure message told my hardware guru that her hard drive's failed, and that this might have been the root cause of the other issue. Now, of course, we need to replace it, reinstall and restore from backup. Assuming that the username hasn't changed and that I've put the backup in the same place that I made it, what arguments to I give tar to make it put everything back exactly where it was? I ask because I once got it wrong and ended up with everything in a subdirectory instead of where it belonged, and I'd rather Get It Right the first time. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
