14 Jan
2012
14 Jan
'12
10:17 p.m.
On 14/01/12 22:11, (Ted Harding) wrote:
On 14-Jan-2012 James Bensley wrote:
rsync has this option
Unfortunately rsync is not present on that system (SuSE Linux 8.2 installed in 2003). I should add that I'm doing this for a friend (predominantly a Windows user) who wants to dispose of the machine, but keep the files. I do not have access to the installation disks (and they may well have gone into a black hole by now).
Thanks for the suggestion! Ted.
The top link in that URL has several answers, one IIRC involves using find to "find" all the files, and pipes that through to a copy operation...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4585929/how-to-use-cp-command-to-exclude-...
or a "tar" example too.
HTH Steve