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gjaditoday at 7:22 AM1 replyview on HN

Except that zip does not preserve permissions.


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Gigachadtoday at 7:33 AM

That seems fine to me. I’ve never cared about permissions in a zip. Zip these days is primarily for exchanging a directory as a single file to another person. Permissions wouldn’t work across computers anyway.

If you want a faithful archive of the data then a tar archive or disk image is what you want.