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Re: [PLUG] Copying ext2 data partitions
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On Monday December 31 2001 8:28, Michael F. Robbins wrote:
> The man page says "if possible", any hints on that? (Will I get errors
> if it for some reason CANT preserve permissions on a particular file? I
> doubt it.) So is there an option I'm missing, or is there a better way
> to do this alltogether?
If possible = Won't retain permissions if you copy to, say. FAT32 :-)
cp -ax is my prefered way to backup. It copies what is on THAT filesystem.
So if you have a SMB mounted under /home/user/SMB/ it won't copy that.
Good luck!!!
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