Linux - Copy only attributes of files into a folder

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At first... I had a problem with my partitioning and needed to reset my hard drive. I am running Linux Mint 19 on Live-CD (USB) to be able to copy the contents of my /home folder (which was on another partition - /dev/sda6 - and I mounted in /mnt) to an external hard drive. For that, I used the command:

cp -r /mnt/user /media/mint/Samsung\ M3/BKP/Linux/home/user -v.

Result: all files were copied successfully. However, they did not come with the proper permissions, attributes, Owners and etc.

Has how I recover this information (copy only the attributes of the original files to those of the existing backup)?

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When it is necessary to copy the information of owners and groups of the file you must use the parameter -p , in your case the command to copy the files and keep the permissions would be:

cp -rp /mnt/user /media/mint/Samsung\ M3/BKP/Linux/home/user -v

More details of the cp command can be seen on the terminal itself with the command man cp

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