Once upon a time, Bryan J Smith <b.j.sm...@ieee.org> said:
> I use either dump|restore or tar c|tar x, piped directly between the source 
> and destination file system.  In the case of tar, I make sure I use the 
> "--xattr" option.  I used to use find|cpio -p in year's past, but it's legacy 
> and does not capture EAs and other details.

With RHEL5, cp -a gets everything, including timestamps, device nodes,
symbolic links, ACLs, SELinux and other extended attributes, etc.

-- 
Chris Adams <cmad...@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

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