----- Original Message -----
From: "Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)"
pinto wrote:
On Thursday 18 March 2004 05:53, David Herman wrote:
As I said before, I use the tar method suggested by John Clausen, and it has worked for me but the cp -a method may suit you.
------snip----------- Keep having a great evening!
TAR works great like this :-
tar clf - . | ( umask 0; cd /mnt; tar xvf - )
Thanks for all the suggestions guys. I have decided to use the command: cp -a /home /data4 for both the home and etc directories.
I trust this will include all the hidden files, retain the user permissions and generally just cp the darn directory. :)
You will probably want this instead: cp -apr /home /data4 -a == all files -p == retain permissions -r == recursive JimW