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Re: ** EMERGANCY **



On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 04:46:40PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote:
> 
> 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)


Pat




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