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