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copying directory structure

Claudio_17 — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:28:09 GMT

Hello ,

I need copy a directory structure from one poit to another ; I've many direcory and sub-directory . I want also maintain owernships and permission.

Re: copying directory structure

Pete Randall — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:30:34 GMT

Use the find command with cpio:

cd /source_dir
find . -print |cpio -pdumxl /target_dir

Pete

Re: copying directory structure

Massimo Bianchi — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:30:50 GMT

I will try this:

Creating the archive:
find . -type d -print | pax -w -d -f directory.pax

on the destination:
pax -r -f directory.pax

Massimo

Re: copying directory structure

Umapathy S — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:31:00 GMT

Claudio,
You can use tar.

tar -cvf

untar in your destination dir

tar -xvf

man tar for more details.

HTH,
Umapathy

Re: copying directory structure

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:31:31 GMT

Do you need the directory structure only, or do you also need the files in the directories? When you one point to another, do you mean on the same system, or from one system to another?

To copy a directory structure and all files and sub-dirs to another spot on the same machine:

# cp -Rp /dir/to/copy /destination/dir

If you need to transfer to another machine, I'd use tar.

# cd /dir/to/copy
# tar -cvf dir_file.tar .

If you just need the directory structure, I can't think of a good way offhand.

Re: copying directory structure

Jeff Schussele — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:33:23 GMT

Hi

Use

cp -r sourceidr targetdir

targetdir should not already exist

Rgds,
Jeff

Re: copying directory structure

Claudio_17 — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:34:24 GMT

I need copy a directory structure ; only dir , not files . And is from one system to another , but in target system I've same user/group so is not and UID/GID problem

Thanks

Re: copying directory structure

Pete Randall — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:40:57 GMT

OK, then:

cd /source_dir

find . -type d |cpio -pdumxl /target_dir

Pete

Re: copying directory structure

Massimo Bianchi — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:41:07 GMT

Hi Claudio, i made a little mistake in the extraction part:

should read

cd destination_base_dir
pax -rv < directory.pax

Massimo

Re: copying directory structure

Leif Halvarsson_2 — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:41:50 GMT

Hi,
Try
find . -type d -print |cpio -pdvmux /

Re: copying directory structure

Claudio_17 — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:45:23 GMT

Thanks very much to all ; sorry I didn't specify copy was between two box

Re: copying directory structure

Jeff Schussele — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:58:12 GMT

Hi (again) Claudio,

Well if it's between systems & it's a one-time shot, then I'd just use tar & ftp

On host1:
tar cvf /tmp/dir_name.tar /dir_name
ftp host2
>put /tmp/dir_name.tar /tmp/dir_name.tar

On host2
tar xvf /tmp/dir_name.tar

Make sure /tmp has enough space - if not use a holding dir that does. This will preserve ownership (provided host2 has the user(s) defined) & permissions.

HTH,
Jeff

Re: copying directory structure

hein coulier — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:51:30 GMT

here's a nice one i use to copy files from one system to another :

cp_dir()
{
source_dir=$1
target_dir=$2
target_host=$3

cd ${source_dir} ; tar cf - . |
rexec ${target_host} -l root "cd ${target_dir} ; tar xpf -"
cd -
}

Re: copying directory structure

Rodney Hills — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 14:06:43 GMT

I use the following for large amounts of data-

fbackup -f - -i /path1 -i /path2 | compress -c | ( remsh otherhost "cd /newpath ; zcat - | frecover -Xx -f - )

Where-
/path1,/path2 are the directories to copy
otherhost is the remote host name
/newpath is where the directories are to be copied

The benefits-
Any ACL info is maintained, and with "compress" the amount of data across the network is kept to a minimum. With fbackup I can select multiple paths, whereas tar is relative to the current working directory.

Downside-
Dependent on "r" commands (remsh,rlogin,rexec) which are not the most secure.

HTH

-- Rod Hills