Backup Harddive permission [SOLVED]

[lagagnon]

Use the terminal to do the copy and use the "cp" command with the -p switch - that will preserve all the file attributes including ownership, e.g:

cp -p *.mp3 /home/me/Music/

for more information on cp read "man cp".

[oboedad55]

the data i have is in an extensive tree with many extention types. This does not seem to resolve my issue, but I had not known about the -p switch; good to know. any other ideas to take one Dir, full of everything, and recursively change the ownership?

Is there a GUI program that will accomplish the same thing? I've had the same issue.

Thanks,
Jon

[Kaye]

Have you tried the chown command?

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sudo chown -R username directory

for example, I had to do

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sudo chown -R jordan ~/data

[lagagnon]

the data i have is in an extensive tree with many extention types. This does not seem to resolve my issue, but I had not known about the -p switch; good to know. any other ideas to take one Dir, full of everything, and recursively change the ownership?

You could again just use cp: cp -rp * /home/me/Data/

[lagagnon]

Is there a GUI program that will accomplish the same thing? I've had the same issue.

I don't know of any file manager that will do that easily - this sort of job is a classic good use for terminal commands. I think that you will find that even in MS Windows forums similar questions will get shell responses.