Re: copying a file system across the network

["Cory Snavely" <csnavely@umich.edu>]

I always use

    srchost% cd /srcdir
    srchost% tar cf - . | ssh desthost "cd /destdir; tar xBf -"

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lindsay Allen" <allen@cleo.murdoch.edu.au>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 5:10 AM
Subject: copying a file system across the network


>
> Past messages have detailed how to copy a file system from one drive to
> another, but now I need to do it across the network.  Of course I need to
> preserve soft and hard links and device files.
>
> I do have a tape device here, but at 525Mb it's nowhere near big enough
> for the job.  I have ssh but not rsh.
>
> Is there a straight-forward way of doing this?  Thanks for any pointers.
>
> Lindsay
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