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From: kinzler@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Kinzler)
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Subject: Copy preserving access times
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Date: 26 Sep 90 04:46:08 GMT
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Has anyone got a tool that'll recursively copy a directory preserving
owners, modes, modification and access times, and copy symlinks, not
what they point to?

BSD 4.3 "cp -p" doesn't do owners or symlinks.
"tar xp" doesn't do access times.
GNU tar should do it all, but doesn't always work for me.
"dump | restore" works fine but is overkill and too slow for large filesystems.

Surely some sysadmin somewhere has hacked up something like this,
if necessary?  I'll take patches if copyrights are a concern.

Thanks,

from the brain of Steve Kinzler    /o)\    kinzler@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
an organ with a mind of its own    \(o/    {ames,rutgers}!iuvax!kinzler