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Re: ** Emegancy Request **



> > Hi All,
> >             Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror
> > a Hard Drive,  keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact
> > 
> > Thanks in Advance
> > Bill
> >
> 
> ( cd <old-mount-point> ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd <new-mount-point> ; tar xf - )
> 


For some reason that I do not understand the authors of the "Hrad Disk Upgrade 
Mini How-To" claim about this or very similar one that

	Previous versions of the Mini How-To stated that you could also
	use "tar" to copy the disk, but this method was found to have a bug.

> HTH
> 
> Christoph Simon
> ciccio@prestonet.com.br
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