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John Myers wrote: |
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> On Monday 29 May 2006 09:11, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: |
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>>Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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>>>What tool or command do you use to make your copies? I remember seeing an |
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>>>invocation of tar piped to tar to ensure that all dates, permissions etc |
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>>>are preserved, even on pipes and other esoteric things, but my memory |
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>>>being what it is of course I can't remember it. |
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>>Maybe: cd /sourcedir; tar -cpf - . | (cd /destdir; tar -xvf -) |
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> perhaps |
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> cp -a |
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> would be simpler? |
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My experience is that cp -a is much slower than tar. |
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Tony |
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