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Subject: Re: Copying an entire tree
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Hi Pat,

> Is there any simple clean way to copy an entire directory tree and
> preserve both the flags (like schg) AND hard links within the tree?
> (And, of course, preserve device special nodes, etc.)

Have you looked at rsync?

HTH... Nico