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Offline batnas

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mydata.tgz permissions
« on: April 27, 2010, 06:34:33 AM »
Hi all.

I have a problem with mydata.tgz not preserving permissions.
I had etc/sudoers in .filetool and back'ed it up about a month ago. (without any reboot in this itime).
I made a small change and had to reboot it, and when it booted again it had changed the permission on /etc/sudoers.
Sudoers do not work with wrong permissions, causing me not to be able to change to root or simply run sudo.

I have managed to fix the problem, and my server is up and running again, but was it an idea to add -p to the tar-command in filetool.sh

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Re: mydata.tgz permissions
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2010, 07:03:07 AM »
-p should be the default for root, and restore always takes place as root. Can you reproduce with 2.11rc2 (with the updated busybox)?
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Re: mydata.tgz permissions
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2010, 07:26:26 AM »
the machine is still running 2.9, and it is a bit triky for me to upgrade it(if it more than just a new microcore.gz)
I am considering upgrading it, but it is a bit tricky as it is a thinstation, only able to PXE-boot

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Re: mydata.tgz permissions
« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2010, 08:00:45 AM »
You could just drop the 2.11rc2 microcore.gz on the PXE server, and boot it with "base", to only check the backup.
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Re: mydata.tgz permissions
« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2010, 08:36:57 AM »
Nah. I think i will wait till 2.12 gets released, and then install again. Can't I just copy all my files to the newly installed MC??
files like: menu.lst,  /tce and  /opt??

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Re: mydata.tgz permissions
« Reply #5 on: April 27, 2010, 09:37:34 AM »
Yes, I was only thinking how you could test without upgrading.
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