On Sun, 2014-06-01 at 06:29 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Assumed there's no data on the stick, IOW assumed you plan to copy to a > stick, then don't copy the directories and files directly, but write the > directories and files to a tar archive, so all the permissions are > preserved and you're free to compress the archive. > > cd /path/to/dir/you/want/to/copy/ > tar --exclude=file_that_should_not_be_copied -czf > /pa/th/backup_file.bak.tar.gz * .hidden_file > > You should read some howtos about shell globbing, before you write data to > an archive. > You should read some howtos about how to use tar, e.g. how to restore data > from the archive.
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