on Thu, May 23, 2002, Petro (petro@auctionwatch.com) wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 07:29:11PM -0700, Angus D Madden wrote:
> > Karsten M. Self, Mon, May 20, 2002 at 02:09:32AM -0700:
> > > on Mon, May 20, 2002, R. Lockhart (richrlo@mts.net) wrote:
> > > > I need to transfer all my data, os, partitions, formatting, to a new
> > > > hard drive. I got a lemon hd (still perfect electronicly but making
> > > > ugly noises). A replacement is on the way from the manufacturer but
> > > > I'm not sure about the best way to mirror a-b.
> > > $ mkdir /mnt/oldhd
> > > $ mkdri /mnt/newhd
> > > $ mount /dev/hda /mnt/oldhd
> > > $ mount /dev/hdb /mnt/newhd
> > > $ cd /mnt/oldhd
> > > $ tar cvf - . | ( cd /mnt/newhd; tar xf - )
> > > (rsync, or cp -padR are other alternatives).
>
> Rsync be your best bet if you can determine the correct syntax. It's
> what system imager uses to basically do the same thing.
For a copy of an existing system to a virgin disk, the overhead of
generating a file list is unnecessary. The tar solution is probably the
faster operation.
Not that rsync doesn't have its uses, and rocks hard at them.
Peace.
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