topic cp and hold permissions in Operating System - HP-UX

cp and hold permissions

Oliver Schmitz — Tue, 18 May 2004 08:12:22 GMT

Hi, I have an error in my RAID system and have to cp my data to aa additional disk. How can I copy without changing the permissions to the umask of the copiing user (its root in this case)?

Thanks and regards,

Oliver

Re: cp and hold permissions

Pete Randall — Tue, 18 May 2004 08:15:17 GMT

Oliver,

Is this a file system? If so, you can use find with cpio like this:

cd /mount_point
find . -print |cpio -pdumxl /new_location

Or you can use conventional backup/restore methods like fbackup.

Pete

Re: cp and hold permissions

Patrick Wallek — Tue, 18 May 2004 08:16:43 GMT

Have a look at the '-p' option of cp. You could use tar as well. Even cpio would work.

# cp -Rp /source/dir /destination/dir

# cd /source
# tar -cf - . | "cd /destination ; tar -xf -"