Hi All, Sorry for not including the summary of the reply i got. Anyway here the most common ones. I used " tar cf site.tar /www/data " then extract using "tar .xvf site.tar" A) use tar. cd sourcedir tar cf - . | (cd /destdir && tar xvf -) B) tar cf - . | (cd /dest-dir && tar xf -) c) man cp rtfm Check out GNU fileutils package which includes 'cp', with a lot more options. Dave Foster D) If copying from dir-a to dir-b, then: cd /dir-a tar cf - . | (cd /dir-b; tar xfp - ) Regards, -- Reggie Beavers E) if /www/data1 is a partition itself, then the best possible way to copy it, and only it, and maintain symlinks, is to use a ufsdump piped to ufsrestore, e.g.: # cd /www/data2 # ufsdump 0f - /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s5 | ufsrestore rf - `cp -pr` works only if you have no symlinks and aren't woried about sub partitions. F) cd /www/data find . -depth -print | cpio -pmdf /www/newdata G) rsync -lra /source/ /target/ kind regards Nick _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Feb 2 09:04:28 2006
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