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find and cpio to back up hardlinks and archive

Posted on January 12, 2009 by pydevops

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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