Re: win32: how to backup (dump does not work)

[Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:30:02PM +0100, Gevik Babakhani wrote:
> > AFAIK stopping the server, zipping data dir, and restarting 
> > the server creates a zip file which is not easily portable to 
> > other computers due to some ntfs file system permission problems.
> > 
> IIRC you have to re-assign owner and change permissions after you copy your
> data dir to the new server.

You don't need to reassign owner normally - we don't care about that. And
if you extract into an existing directory, it should inherit it fine :-)
But true, if you extract into a nwe directory, you may need to change the
permissions.

//Magnus