[plug] Help with tar

[Brad Campbell]

G'evening all
This one has me screaming with pain..
I am trying to copy the contents of one laptops
hard disk to another laptop, via a server, as I only
have one pcmcia network card..

Trying 
tar --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/proc --exclude=/var/log/wtmp -cpvzf
/mnt/laptop.tgz /

When I uncompress on the other box, with a 
tar -xvpzf /mnt/laptop.tgz
All the files have the corret uid/gid, but all the dirs are
uid/gid 0 (which is the uid/gid I'm running from)
I have tried --same-owner and --force-numeric
and lots of permutations of the above..
Even tried creating a V7 tar archive and uncompressing
with a cat /mnt/laptop.tgz | zcat | star
which are utils in the debian slink rescue disks...

Helllllpppppppppp................

Yours in frustration.....


-- 
Brad....
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