On 23 October 2010 00:32, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Rich Shepard
> wrote:
>
>> Since I need to install Slackware-13.0 on the new drive, and it was
>> installed on the existing main drive only a couple of days ago, I'll just
>> 'cp -R ...' from the existing dri
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> Ahem, cp -a or something more inspired e.g. tar ./ -cf - | tar -C /newdisk
> -xf - because the date stamps on files are actually useful.
OK. I'll use something robust. Thanks for the suggestion.
Rich
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On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 10:02:04AM +0100, Jenny Hopkins wrote:
> Out of interest, if Rich copies all the dated backup directories to
> the new hard drive, will the hard links be preserved between the daily
> images that contain the same files or will each file copy as unique?
I believe rsync -aHv
