[H-GEN] I'm stumped.......

[Craig Eldershaw]

>cp sux for this as it doesn't preserve permissions.  

Ummm...  From cp's man page:

...
     -p    Preserve.  cp duplicates  not  only  the  contents  of
	   source_file, but also preserves the owner and group id,
	   permissions modes, modification and  access  time,  and
	   ACLs  if applicable.  ...

>You do need some space to keep the tar or tar.gz file though (can be a
>remove nfs mounted FS).

Ummm...what about:

tar -cf - /source | tar -xf - /dest

(plus lots of preserve options if so inclined).

Cheers,
	Craig.


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