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File Permission Backup Howto?
By maozet - Posted on September 10th, 2009
Have you ever mistakenly changed a directory permission?
Well, I guess that happens to all once in a while(even couple of years).
So, Following is a short tutorial about how to back up your permissions for latter recovery.
The idea is very simple:
* Create a permission back up file named: myperbackup.sh (based on arg $2)
* Loop over the path to backup
* For each file store the:
chmod command and the old permission bits
chown command and the user.group
Note: Its a good idea to place that in cron.
