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Old 08-01-2005
Filesystem Copy
Hi, Fairly new to the Unix worldand was wonderig without using tar and cp is there another way to copy files from one filesystem to a mount point but preserving all data, time stamp etc..

Cheers,
Smilie
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Old 08-01-2005
cpio
ufsdump/ufsrestore
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Old 08-01-2005
Thanks Dude will give ufsdump a try.
Smilie
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