How do I preserve ownership permissions when copying to an external volume?
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When I upgrade or reinstall linux I backup my home folder by running sudo cp -pr /home/users/yitzchak /media/externalHDD/backups
. When I do this I get errors saying that permissions could not be preserved and when I copy the folder back onto my local disk I see that ownership has been changed to root and I have to chown
all of them back, which has to be done manually piecemeal because not all files have the same group. Is there any way around that?
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