Sunday, January 11, 2009

find and cpio to back up hardlinks and archive

It can be used for backup with cpio to maintain the hardlinks, permission and modified timestamp.

find d1 d2 -type f -mtime +${period} | cpio -Bpdmv backup_dir


Archive the data to a single .cpio file.

http://bradthemad.org/tech/notes/cpio_directory.php

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