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On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 07:45:01AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
> - why use GNU cp when you can use our own cp?  You could do 'cp -Rpl' 
> instead.

Indeed.  Another option (my preference) is pax -rw -l -p e.
Seems to work quite nicely (thanks to the OP for pointing out
this variation on rsync backups, which I've been using for my
laptop for a while...)

Cheers,

-- 
Andrew