I want to copy a directory, but not all the files

[Jos de Ruiter]

Hi,

I want to copy a directory to a other directoy, but not all the files. There ar about 2000 files.

I now the option cp -p -r directory > directory.

Who can help me!!!

[Vibhor Kumar Agarwal]

You can try something like:

find . -name xyz -type d -exec mkdir -p /destination/ {} \;

here you can have xyz as the child node to make it in one step.

[Muthukumar_5]

You can try as,


cd
find . \( ! -name . \) -type d -exec cp -r {} / \;

or

cd
find . \( ! -name . \) -type d | xargs cp -r

Also refer to,
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=898151

hth.

[Jos de Ruiter]

Thanks for the reply.

Can i use a exclude file???

[Vibhor Kumar Agarwal]

You can use one more switch of find.

find . -name "file_to_exclude" -prune

In addition to the above this will leave this file only.

If there are some more try the or option.
-o

[Cem Tugrul]

How About this ?

cd source_dir
for direct in `ls -lrt|grep "^d"|awk '{print $9}'`
do
cp $direct targer_dir
done

Good Luck,

[A. Clay Stephenson]

You might actually find it easier to use fbackup piped to frecover. Fbackup can write to stdout and frecover can read from stdin so
fbackup | frecover works very well. A graph file for fbackup lets you specify both the includes and the excludes. Man fbackup, frecover for details.

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi,

I have sometimes used the method, first creating a list of files with find, then edit the list and last, reading the list from a script which copies the files.

By the way, it is very common to use cpio together with find for copying files.

find . |cpio -pdvmux

[Jos de Ruiter]

hi Leif,

I use your command, but to make first een file.index with "find . > file.index" en edit this one is ok.

But now a try to used it in your command.
"cat file.index |cpio -pdvmux /data" this seems to be working

I try to remove *.TCP from the file.index with a script command, so i can a create a sort of exclude file??.

Groet, Jos.

[Eknath]

Hi Jos,

How about using fbackup where you can specify list of files to be included or excluded, Check man pages of fbackup for more info.

Cheers !!!
eknath

[Cem Tugrul]

i am sending these notes because both
A.Clay Stephenson & Eknath's suggestions
also are significant for me and at once
i thought these notes would be helpful to you

Good luck,
FBACKUP/FRECOVER

Things to remember about fbackup:

* fbackup MUST rewind the tape before beginning the backup and after
completing.
* a tape created with fbackup is only recoverable with frecover.
* a file listed in the index file (from option -rvNf) is not guaranteed
to be on the tape; this simply means that fbackup intended to back the
file up when it began the backup session.

Command Description

fbackup -vf /dev/rmt/0m -i / full system backup

fbackup -vf /dev/rmt/0m -i specifically include file/directory
/etc/hosts preceded by -i

fbackup -vf /dev/rmt/0m -i specifically include multiple
/etc/hosts -i /usr files/directories preceded by -i

fbackup -vf /dev/rmt/0m -e specifically exclude file/directory
/etc/hosts preceded by -e

fbackup -vf /dev/rmt/0m -g
graph_file_name backup from a graph file

frecover -xvf /dev/rmt/0m restore entire tape to originating
directory structure

restore entire tape to originating
frecover -xovf /dev/rmt/0m directory structure and overwrite any
existing files

cd /tmp restore entire tape to /tmp
frecover -xXvf /dev/rmt/0m (originating directory structure will
not be overwritten)

frecover -vf /dev/rmt/0m -I verify backup and read the index file
/tmp/index from the tape into a file called
/tmp/index

fbackup -vf /dev/rmt/0m 2>&1 log what is backed up, along with any
|tee /tmp/backup.log errors that occur

frecover -rNv -f /dev/rmt/0m 2>
/tmp/listing list of what is really on the tape

frecover -V /tmp/volume_headers
-f /dev/rmt/0m show volume headers on the tape

[Jos de Ruiter]

HI,

I want to thanks all de members who have reply, I try several optie from everyone.

Thanks, Jos.