Re: tar, cpio, or cp?
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
: Hi.
:
: Does anyone know the best way to copy a huge directory tree (~1Gig)
: to another disk (mounted at some point)? I need to preserve the
: ownerships and permissions, preservation of times are optional.
:
: I am aware of 3 ways:
: tar cpfl - dir1 | tar -C dir2 -xpf -
: find dir1 -xdev -print | cpio -p -admu dir2
: cp -ax dir1 dir2
:
: Which one is considered to be safer, faster, etc?
:
: thanks.
:
: Alex Y.
:
FWIW,
I prefer cpio as it (IMHO) does the best job of preserving permissions,
and it doesn't throw up on device files and the like.
However, this seems to be a topic similar to religion; last time we
debated this there was quite a row. Not unlike debating vi/emacs/etc.
...
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