[wplug] new HDD

[Jonathan S. Billings]

On Feb 21, 2004, at 9:46 PM, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
> I see.. thanks.  I was a bit alarmed, but I looked in /var/log/messages
> and I saw that it spotted my drive and named it /dev/hdb.  So I pressed
> onward.  I then did something dumb, but have recovered: as root, I 
> entered
> 'cp -rf /home/* /temp1' where temp1 was my temporary mount point for my
> new drive.  It copied everything, but with root as the 0wnz0r.  (I also
> stomped all the date-stamps).
>
> It has since been fixed.  Except all my date stamps are for today, 
> about
> 35 minutes ago.  And, now I know about cp -rfp.
>
> Good thing I'm still the only user on this system... hehehe.
>
> -Brandon

I probably would have done this:

cd /home;
tar cpf - . | (cd /temp1; tar xpvf -)

I use this style quite often, even for copying data to other systems, 
like:

cd /home;
tar cpf - . | ssh foobar.baz.com "cd /temp1; tar xpvf -"

jonathan