On 29.01.2015, Mickey wrote: 

> But what I'm concerned about is that Root will change the owner of the Tar
> files. after i do the new install it will have the same user on the crashed
> drive.

Never ever compress backup data which contains valuable data. One single bit 
flip will
render your whole archive useless. This one does not compress and preserves all 
important
attributes:

rsync -avxHSAX /source/ /target

Note the trailing slash at the end of the source directory.

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