From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 18 11:32:25 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 11:32:24 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monkeys.com (236.dsl9226.rcsis.com [63.92.26.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE2F437B402 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 11:32:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from monkeys.com (236.dsl9226.rcsis.com [63.92.26.236]) by mail.monkeys.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eBIJVcW13285 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 11:31:38 -0800 (PST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Backing up a file system... How do I preserve the file flags? From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 11:31:38 -0800 Message-ID: <13283.977167898@monkeys.com> Sender: rfg@monkeys.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've just been doing some thinking about disaster recovery and how I would go about making complete backups on my FreeBSD file systems, for example from disk-to-tape or else maybe disk-to-disk. Now obviously, I _can_ use cpio to make a full backup, but looking at the man page for cpio, I don't see anyweher where it talks about the file flags that are documented in chflags(1) and chflags(2). So I'm assuming that cpio WILL NOT preserve these flags, correct? So how am I supposed to preserve them when making my full backups? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message