--On Friday, August 22, 2003 20:17:07 +0930 Malcolm Kay
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Dump/restore is also the only technique I've found to retain the holes in
holey files.
cpio can handle sparse files. I think that was the reason I changed
from a tar/tar pipe to a find/cpio pipe as my standard met
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 08:35, Dan Strick wrote:
> > No, I hadn't thought of using rsync for a purely local copy. But now
> > that I've tried it, add it to the list of utilities that lose the flags.
> > (I'm particularly interested in preserving the schg and nodump flags.)
> >
> > So far, the only thi
--On Thursday, August 21, 2003 15:45:54 -0600 Tillman Hodgson
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>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:23:54PM -0700, Pat Lashley wrote:
>> Is there any simple clean way to copy an entire directory tree and
>> preserve both the flags (like schg) AND hard links within the tree?
>>
>>
> No, I hadn't thought of using rsync for a purely local copy. But now
> that I've tried it, add it to the list of utilities that lose the flags.
> (I'm particularly interested in preserving the schg and nodump flags.)
>
> So far, the only thing I know of that seems to do everything right
>
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:23:54PM -0700, Pat Lashley wrote:
> On Thursday, August 21, 2003 22:19:28 +0200 Nico Meijer
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> Is there any simple clean way to copy an entire directory tree and
> >> preserve both the flags (like schg) AND hard links within the tree?
>
--On Thursday, August 21, 2003 22:19:28 +0200 Nico Meijer
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Is there any simple clean way to copy an entire directory tree and
preserve both the flags (like schg) AND hard links within the tree?
(And, of course, preserve device special nodes, etc.)
Have you looked at rsyn
Hi Pat,
> Is there any simple clean way to copy an entire directory tree and
> preserve both the flags (like schg) AND hard links within the tree?
> (And, of course, preserve device special nodes, etc.)
Have you looked at rsync?
HTH... Nico
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Is there any simple clean way to copy an entire directory tree and
preserve both the flags (like schg) AND hard links within the tree?
(And, of course, preserve device special nodes, etc.)
cp -r Copies hardlinked files as separate files
cpioDoesn't preserve flags
pax
