16 Sep
2005
16 Sep
'05
03:47
--- babu walad
cp, cpio, etc... In addition there are utilities to do the same thing. The question is, which method is best at preserving the copy as closely as the original?
What do you mean by "as closely as the original?" All the tools you mentioned will copy the "contents" of the files equally well. If you want to preserve the time stamp, symlinks etc. then look up the man page of the specific tool. If you simply want to back up the files, while you run your diagnostics on the HDD, then tar the filesystem to a different HDD and extract them using the time stamp and other relevant options. -- Arun Khan