Copying file attributes Hi David, thanks for the explanation.
In this case it's about my local backup on an extra hard drive and for this, I'd like my backup to be a 1 to 1 mirror of the source. Ideally I just want to swap the drives in case of a failure without the need of any kind of backup software to restore my backup. That's why I want the file attributes copied together with the files.
I have the more sopisticated backup with versioning and stuff like that on a distant NAS, for that I'm fine with your file-attribute-database-approach, but locally I want to be ready to go in 10 minutes after the original drive crashed.