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Hi,

- on a solaris box what is the best utility to copy a whole file system from one place to other? - the aim of the operation is to place the contents of
the whole file system to other file...

- many thanks ZB
- i am going to use cpio or tar to make my saves
Jakez

thanks a lot ZB
- by the way is it possible to do the same using cp or tar utility?
Jakez

Hi,

- i am not unix specialist and i would like to save all the contents of a directory containing symbolic links BUT:

+ i want to get the links within the copy (to be able to restaor them)
+...

Hi pressy,

- what do you mean with 'follow' in your cmde:
find ./ ! -follow | cpio -pdmuv /new/directory

thanks
Jakez

Hi chap,

- the last script you gave me makes again the copy of the symbolic link (he type "l" file listed by ls

- some idea for not copying the link??

thanks a lot
Jakez

hello guy,

- thanks for replying

- i tried your script but if we have a link in the dty to copy the dty which is pointed to by the link is copied also !! even when executing the cmde: "find ....

Hi,

- we have copy (cp command) to do to save all the contents of a dty BUT we dont want to copy the files corresponding to symbolic links contained whithin this dty

- the box is a sun solaris...

Hi,

- connecting to a sun unix platform from a windows station i would like to get the complete contents of a directory via FTP
instead of getting each file at its turn

- is that possible?
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