On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 22:24:39 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:42:03 +0200, Merlin Büge wrote: >>Also cp -pr does not preserve links or xattrs for example. Maybe cp >>-ar would be more appropriate. > >Ok, actually I regularly backup to a tar archive and at least links are >preserved. I seemingly missed to use the --xattrs switch, fortunately >this never caused an issue for me, but I consider to add it to my >scripts soon. > >Thank you for the pointer and my apologies for the false advice. [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cd /tmp/ [rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ mkdir test [rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ cd test/ [rocketmouse@archlinux test]$ touch 1.txt [rocketmouse@archlinux test]$ ln -s 1.txt link.txt [rocketmouse@archlinux test]$ ls 1.txt link.txt [rocketmouse@archlinux test]$ cd .. [rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ cp -pr test/ test_2 [rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ ls test_2/ 1.txt link.txt [rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ ls -l test test_2 test: total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 0 Oct 17 22:26 1.txt lrwxrwxrwx 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 5 Oct 17 22:26 link.txt -> 1.txt test_2: total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 0 Oct 17 22:26 1.txt lrwxrwxrwx 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 5 Oct 17 22:26 link.txt -> 1.txt [rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ cd test [rocketmouse@archlinux test]$ ln 1.txt hardlink.txt [rocketmouse@archlinux test]$ ls -l total 0 -rw-r--r-- 2 rocketmouse rocketmouse 0 Oct 17 22:26 1.txt -rw-r--r-- 2 rocketmouse rocketmouse 0 Oct 17 22:26 hardlink.txt lrwxrwxrwx 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 5 Oct 17 22:26 link.txt -> 1.txt [rocketmouse@archlinux test]$ cd .. [rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ cp -pr test/ test_2 [rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ ls -l test test_2 test: total 0 -rw-r--r-- 2 rocketmouse rocketmouse 0 Oct 17 22:26 1.txt -rw-r--r-- 2 rocketmouse rocketmouse 0 Oct 17 22:26 hardlink.txt lrwxrwxrwx 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 5 Oct 17 22:26 link.txt -> 1.txt test_2: total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 0 Oct 17 22:26 1.txt lrwxrwxrwx 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 5 Oct 17 22:26 link.txt -> 1.txt drwxr-xr-x 2 rocketmouse rocketmouse 100 Oct 17 22:29 test [rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ -- Death of ROXTerm https://sourceforge.net/p/roxterm/discussion/422638/thread/60da6975/
