On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 10:23:51AM +0100, David Given wrote: > > Personally, I use > > cd /source > tar clf - . | (cd /dest; tar xvf -) for smaller scale transfers i use tar in this manner too. > Alternatively: > > cp -av /source /dest > > ...does a reasonable job but it doesn't preserve *all* attributes of the > files. I've yet to work out exactly what it does and doesn't do. now this one is dangerous, recent GNU cp does a ok job of it, but older versions, and of course non-gnu cp do NOT do this right at all, you end up with symlinks not being preserved and permissions not being preserved. i never reccommend cp -a for anything large or important for that reason, just look in debian-user archives for at least 2 or 3 instances (within the last year) of people totally hosing there systems by moving filesystems using cp, losing the symlinks, file ownerships and permissions... big time mess, especially on filesystems like /var. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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