on Thu, May 23, 2002, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 07:29:11PM -0700, Angus D Madden wrote: > > Karsten M. Self, Mon, May 20, 2002 at 02:09:32AM -0700: > > > on Mon, May 20, 2002, R. Lockhart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > I need to transfer all my data, os, partitions, formatting, to a new > > > > hard drive. I got a lemon hd (still perfect electronicly but making > > > > ugly noises). A replacement is on the way from the manufacturer but > > > > I'm not sure about the best way to mirror a-b. > > > $ mkdir /mnt/oldhd > > > $ mkdri /mnt/newhd > > > $ mount /dev/hda /mnt/oldhd > > > $ mount /dev/hdb /mnt/newhd > > > $ cd /mnt/oldhd > > > $ tar cvf - . | ( cd /mnt/newhd; tar xf - ) > > > (rsync, or cp -padR are other alternatives). > > Rsync be your best bet if you can determine the correct syntax. It's > what system imager uses to basically do the same thing.
For a copy of an existing system to a virgin disk, the overhead of generating a file list is unnecessary. The tar solution is probably the faster operation. Not that rsync doesn't have its uses, and rocks hard at them. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Moderator, Free Software Law Discussion mailing list: http://lists.alt.org/mailman/listinfo/fsl-discuss/
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