cp and hold permissions

[Oliver Schmitz]

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

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

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

[Patrick Wallek]

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 -"