backing up home directory

[Littlefield, Tyler]

tar -cvvf file.tar dir
Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Moore" <christopher.h.moore at verizon.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 6:06 PM
Subject: backing up home directory


> Hello,
> I want to back up my home directory and move it into its own partition.  
> I'm thinkig of using tar to accomplish this.  What flags do I need in 
> order to preserve the file permissions and dot files?
> 
> Thanks
> Chris
> 
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