copying a home directory onto a removable drive and back

[Tim Henderson]

> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Tim Henderson<bizdev at pwnspeak.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> I think if you use cp -ar the a gets you all the links in
>>> files. Look at man cp and be sure.
>>
>> If you use the cp command (I would not recommend, rsync all the way),
>> you should use the -p flag to preserve permissions.
>
> cp -a includes -p and -r
>
> It also preserves selinux contexts and extended attributes.
>

brilliant