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Re: [PLUG] copying a complete system to new HD
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On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Michael C. Toren wrote:
>Also, just to be safe, I would use:
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> (cd /src && tar cvpf - *) | (cd /dest && tar xvpf -)
...which is, in fact, the recommended method in the Tips-HOWTO:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Tips-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.6
One time, to be safe, I did it using the 'cd && tar' method, and the 'cp
-a' method, comparing the directory structure using something along the
lines of 'diff <(ls /olddir) <(ls /newdir)', and the only thing that
seemed to be different was with some symbolic links (the differences
were due to the fact that the links were handled properly). IIRC, the
cp -a was faster. The tar method has going for it, of course, the fact
that it is portable to other Unices, since the -a option is peculiar to
GNU cp.
>I end up using lines similar to the above quite often when moving and
>copying directory structures. I also end up piping tar to gzip -c, and
>then to netcat to do network backups.
Fun fun fun stuff with Unix. :)
BTW, have you checked out amanda for network backups? I've not used it
myself, but my boss does and swears by it. There is a Debian package
available.
Bill
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