On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 01:15:36AM -0700, Mike Markley wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 04:56:07PM -0400, Patrick Ouellette <pat@buckeye-express.com> 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.
Providing you give it the -p option when extracting ... ie:
cd <dest> && (cd <src> && tar -cf -) | tar -xpf -
Timshel
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