[H-GEN] Re: cp incantation
Robert Brockway
rbrockway at opentrend.net
Wed Apr 20 21:02:43 EDT 2005
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Doug South wrote:
> mc did preserve, so it is done correctly, but I feel dirty doing it
> this way. What is the "right" way to do this with cp?
Personally I always use tar or an incarnation of dump to do this sort of
thing.
I used to have a page up showing how to do this cleanly with tar without
the data hitting disk as a tar file. I'll put it up again soon.
Rob
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