Copying an entire tree

[Tillman Hodgson]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:23:54PM -0700, Pat Lashley wrote:
> On Thursday, August 21, 2003 22:19:28 +0200 Nico Meijer 
> <nico.meijer at zonnet.nl> wrote:
> 
> >> Is there any simple clean way to copy an entire directory tree and
> >> preserve both the flags (like schg) AND hard links within the tree?
> >> (And, of course, preserve device special nodes, etc.)
> >
> > Have you looked at rsync?
> 
> No, I hadn't thought of using rsync for a purely local copy.  But now
> that I've tried it, add it to the list of utilities that lose the flags.
> (I'm particularly interested in preserving the schg and nodump flags.)
> 
> So far, the only thing I know of that seems to do everything right
> is cvsup.  But it's really a bit cumbersome to set up for a one-time
> copy.

cpdup, perhaps?

(/usr/ports/sysutils/cpdup)

-T


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