help with find

[rleon]

Hello

I am doing a small migration.
Last week I copied all of the data from mounta to mountb. This copy took about 14 hours do to the amount of data.

Now instead of taking 14 hours I would like to run a find command to find files newer then 7 days and copy them from mounta to mountb.

The problem is that my find syntax does not seem to be smart enough to copy them into the correct directory / subdirectory structure.

How can I find files newer then 7 days and make sure that file gets copied into the correct directory.

Thanks

[Redhat · Accepted solution]

cd /mounta
find . -depth -mtime -7 -print |cpio -pmvdu /mountb

Hope it will help

see man pages for cpio

[Jeff_Traigle]

Sounds like rsync would be a better choice of tools for this.

[KapilRaj]

I am sure "find /source -print | cpio -pdm /destination" will do the job. The cpio command make sure that it does not try to copy things that are already in the target.

Regards,

Kaps

[spex]

Hello,

This shell script has received only cursory testing by me, so use with care:

#!/usr/bin/sh

typeset -i MAXAGE=7
typeset SRCMP=/mounta
typeset DSTMP=/mountb

for F in $(find ${SRCMP} -type f -mtime -${MAXAGE} -print)
do
DIRNAME=${F%/*}
BASENAME=${F##*/}
DSTPATH=${DSTMP}${DIRNAME#${SRCMP}}
if [ ! -d ${DSTPATH} ]
then
mkdir -p ${DSTPATH}
echo "*** Created directory ${DSTPATH}"
fi
echo "Copying ${F} to ${DSTPATH}"
cp -p ${F} ${DSTPATH}
done

exit 0

PCS

[Raj D.]

You can also use fbackup for selectively pickup the files and restore using frecover on the fly.

Cheers,
Raj.