At Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:51:33 -0700 (PDT) CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > Robert Heller wrote: > > > Note that is also possible to use dump or cpio as well. Unlike the > > MS-Windows zip/unzip, which combines compressing and archiving in a > > single program, the 'UNIX' way is to separate these functions. bzip2 > > only compresses. Other programs (tar, dump, cpio) create archives -- > > bundle a group of files and/or directory trees into a single file. > > zip and some of the other compression tools also have a habbit > of not preserving file system permissions or ownership, which can > be handy in a backup, also may not support special devices(e.g. > sockets, fifos, character/block device entries etc). If you rely > upon file system ACLs on top of regular unix permissions things > might get more complicated, I don't use ACLs, so don't have > experience with preserving them in archives. dump and *GNU* tar handle special files properly. dump preserves all ext2/ext3 permissions, etc. Also preserves hard and soft links. > > nate > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/