copying dir & preserving ownership

[Rosli Ahmad]

Hi,
I need to copy huge directories to another areas. I did:

#find . -depth|cpio -pdm /target

but it didn't preserve the ownership. What other way can use to copy my directories to other areas and preserving all the right ownership & permission.

Thanking everyone in advance.
-rosli-

[Thierry Poels_1]

hi,

"cp -p" preserves permissions, so does tar, fbackup, ...

regards,
Thierry.

[Ranjith_5]

Hi rosli,

do cp -rp when u copy a directory.

regards,
Syam

[bhavin asokan]

hi,

try the following

find . -depth | cpio -pdlmuva /target

see the link for the same type of problem.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=45352


regds,

[Radhakrishnan Venkatara]

As mentioned above cp -pr will work. But if u want to do for huge data use tar,fbackup and dd.

[Jannik · Accepted solution]

This is the way for you:
cd fromdir ; tar cf - . | ( cd todir ; tar xf - )

I have just tested it and it retains all user and group information.

Best Regards!

[Rosli Ahmad]

Thank you guys.

[Rashid Hamid]

Hi Rosli

Use cp -r to copy directories and sub directories.
If the ownership change, use chown -R


Regards
Rashid Hamid