On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:19:47 -0700 Richard Burkhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone have suggestions on a set of shell commands I can pipe > together to: > - Batch transfer multiple files & directories from a windows > (server 2000) machine onto a Linux machine > - Maintain as many of the original file permissions as will make it > across the samba link > - Maintain the original file save dates from the windows side (the > first time I did a mass cp, it changed all the target-file dates to > the day of the copy) > - Set the archive bit on the source media, so that if I have to do > this again to catch updates I can just grab updated files. > > Last night google led me to a website describing a way to start with > tar, pipe that output to a couple of commands to transfer to the new > machine, then un-tar it out to the new drive. Unfortunately, I can't > find that page again -- and until I go home, I won't be able to check > my browser history. (cd /src-dir; tar cf - *) | (cd /target-dir; tar xpf -) p is the flag to preserve permissions when extracting. --Ken -- Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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