Michael C. Toren on Mon, 17 Dec 2001 16:39:41 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Dumb (?) drive question 

> (as root)
> # cd /usr
> # tar cpf - . | ( cd /mnt/tmp; tar xpf - )

I highly recommend changing that ";" to a "&&".

> Should do the copy just fine, including symlinks.

It also handles hardlinks, which is very nice.

-mct