A Newbie Question

[Devon Ainsworth]

What I want to do is, copy everything from one mount to another one (subdirectories too). I need to have the permissions and user ID/Groups in tacked.

What would be the best way to do this?

Thank You

Devon

[Patrick Wallek]

The real easy way is:

# cd /mountpoint1
# cp -rp . /mountpoint2

[Robert-Jan Goossens · Accepted solution]

Hi,

# find /source | cpio -pcmudv /target

Regards,

Robert-Jan

[Alzhy]

The safest IMHO is:

vxdump 0f - /oldmnt|(cd /newmnt ; vxrestore rf -)

All file properties preserved, even special files.

Of course you can also use cpio as others have mentioned.

If you insist on TAR, use GNU's version.

[Steven E. Protter]

If you have it installed the -rp syntax will work for secure shell

scp -rp /mountpoint hostname:/mountpoint2

SEP

[Marvin Strong]

with tar

from target directory

(cd /source;tar cf - .)|tar xf -

[rvrameshbabu]

Use rsync to copy , it preserves date/ownership .

http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/binaries/HPUX/

[Geoff Wild]

I use vxdump as well:

vxdump -0 -f - -s 1000000 -b 16 /oldmount | (cd /newmount ; vxrestore rf -)

Rgds...Geoff