About John Storta, Jr. Expertise I am a Sun Certified Solaris Administrator. I can answer virtually any question relating to the administration of Sun servers. I have experience installing hardware, managing user accounts, maintaining file systems, setting up backup and recovery plans, configuring Veritas NetBackup, and general troubleshooting.
Experience I have been a UNIX System Administrator for 5 years. I have implemented 5 systems as a Project Leader. I have seen a wide range of problems over the years and found solutions for all of them.
Organizations Independant Computer Consultants Association
Education/Credentials Sun Certified Solaris Administrator
Training in Oracle SQL and Veritas NetBackup
30+ university level Computer Science credits
Awards and Honors Received outstanding service award for my achievements
Recognized by VP and CEO following system implementation
Expert: John Storta, Jr. Date: 4/10/2001 Subject: Copying links under Solaris
Question Hello,
I am trying to duplicate certain small portions of a disk which includes directories, files and soft-links. But when I use "cp [options]" it seems that the soft-link target is copied rather than the soft-link as it is. Is there some switch (or some other way) to copy a small directory structure such that the soft-links will be retained?
What I would like is a mirror image.
Thanks in advance.
Steve
Answer I am pretty sure this should work. I use it when copying entire directory structures to a different file system.
1) use mkdir to create the new directory where you want it.
4) This should copy everything from its current location to the new directory while leaving all of the file permissions, ownership, and links.
The key to this command is that you must be in the directory that you want to copy. It basically copies all files and directories from your current location on down to the new directory.
Let me know if you have any problems.
John Storta, Jr.
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