On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 04:56:07PM -0400, Patrick Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
spake forth:
> > On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Bill wrote:
> >
> > > Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror
> > > a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact
> >
> > Same size: dd(1)
> >
> > Different sizes:
> >
> > mount both drives
> > cd <dest> && (cd <src> && tar -cf -) | tar -xf -
> >
>
> Wouldn't cp -o <src mount point> <dest mount point> work better than tar??
> (no need for all that temp file space)
What temp file space?
Also, tar is much better about preserving a lot of attributes than cp is...
-a or no -a.
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