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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: Best way to copy directory trees
Message-ID: <1996Aug1.202257.4419@wavehh.hanse.de>
Organization: BSD User Group Hamburg
References: <ts-0108961559090001@mac.infodirekt.de> <4tqksl$n1m@ezekiel.ieunet.ie>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 96 20:22:57 GMT
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nick@Ireland.EU.net (Nick Hilliard) writes:
>Thomas Schreiber (ts@infodirekt.de) said:
>: What is the best way to copy directory trees with preserving
>: access dates, permissions, links and so on?
>: I know about
>: cp -pr
>: tar cf - | (cd destdir; tar xf -)
>tar -cf - foo | (cd destdir; tar xpf -) works better. If you have GNU cp
>lying the place, 'cp -av' does the job nicely. You could also use some
>combination of dump and restore, but that only works for whole filesystems.
GNU tar has a number of problems, too. The copy is not really
verbatim. I suggest using pax(1). As far as I can tell, it is the tool
that copies most things correctly.
rsync, although intended for remote copies, seems to do a rather good
job, too.
Martin
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