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Diggory Laycock · Jul 27, 2002, 06:32 AM

I'm loving unix - just beginning to get stuck into Shell Scripting.

I basically want to back-up my web config and hosted files. Nothing new there!

I have knocked out the following script but it doesn't seem to preserve Permissions in the new copy.

<blockquote>code:<hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;"> echo "Backing-Up The Webserver Directory"
cp -Rp /library/webserver/ /volumes/g4Sixty/back-ups/webserver/
echo "Done!"
</pre><hr /></blockquote>Can anyone point out where I've (obviously) gone wrong?

bluehz · Jul 27, 2002, 07:44 AM

Are you copying to a different drive? If so you might want to do a "get Info" on the drive and check that the "Ignore Priviledges on this disk" is nbot checked. That would cause it to not retain your privs. Also - you might want to look into psync (see MacOSXHints.com) for your back/sync needs. Works fantastic!

Diggory Laycock · Jul 27, 2002, 07:55 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by bluehz:
Are you copying to a different drive? If so you might want to do a "get Info" on the drive and check that the "Ignore Priviledges on this disk" is nbot checked. That would cause it to not retain your privs. Also - you might want to look into psync (see MacOSXHints.com) for your back/sync needs. Works fantastic!<hr /></blockquote>Ha! thanks - the "ignore privs." checkbox was ticked. Thanks.

Also - Thanks for the tip on pSync - Fantastic. Had problems downloading and installing from within CPAN, but the Binary Dist worked fine.

[ 07-27-2002, 08:38 AM: Message edited by: Diggory Laycock ]

eno · Jul 28, 2002, 08:54 AM

tar is usually used for this kind of thing. It preserves permissions/ownerships etc.

See man tar for an example of a piped tar...