cp -ar to external harddrive
amar_padhi
amar_padhi at fastmail.fm
Tue Dec 6 07:51:04 UTC 2005
have you tried cp -pr. The 'p' option keeps the permissions, owner etc.
Thanks!
amar
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 07:33 +0000, Bryan Hepworth wrote:
> Hi Everyone
>
> I'm trying to back up /home to an external hard drive (maxtor usb) and
> wanted to keep the file permissions but when I do a
>
> cp -ar /home /media/usb it complains about not being able to do the
> permissions and they all go across as root instead.
>
> Anyone know where I'm going wrong?
>
> Thanks
>
> Bryan
>
>
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