06-30-2010, 09:34 PM

Hello all
My department has a shared folder on my Mac. Everyone logs in as a particlar user in order to get read/write access to it. The folder has grown, and I would like to shift it to a new drive. I want to keep permissions, timestamps, and resource forks intact. It would seem my options are as follows:

• use "cp -pPR" to recursively copy the folder, preserving meta information
• use "ditto --rsrc"
• use "rsync -aE" (not sure my version of rsync (2.6.9) supports resource forks)
• create an image of the directory structure using Disk Utility, and restore the image to the new drive <- my favoured option at present
• Am I over-thinking it? Should I just drag the thing across in the Finder?

Thoughts? Recommendations? Many thanks, in advance

07-01-2010, 01:32 PM

Back it up, then restore it to the other drive?

What OS version are you working with?

07-01-2010, 06:47 PM

I'm using Leopard 10.5.8, running on a dual quad-core Mac Pro. Dropping in another drive was the work of an instant, but I want the new directory tree to be as close a replica of the old as possible.

07-01-2010, 08:58 PM

Originally Posted by hagfish

I'm using Leopard 10.5.8,

Then you can use Time Machine to make that backup.