Bob Sanders wrote:
How about benchmarks? Has anyone seen benchmarks of dump vs. partimage vs.
tar vs. rsync vs. cp? That would be interesting.
Why? The task is to move the data from one partition to a new
disk/partition. Getting it
reliably done, in a repeatable, sane, manner is
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
Normally when I want to populate a new dir structure (which is empty to
begin with) I do
instead of issuing the command
cp -a /some/area/mp3 /other/area/mp3-store
use
tar lcf - . | (cd /other/area/mp3-store; tar -xpvf - )
tar lcf - /path/to/file | (cd
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:07:35 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
The dd program knows nothing about partions but it will work with the
associated device file. I would use fdisk, mke2fs, and rsync.
I'd go with rsync too. It may well be slower than tar, but it can be
I've found that squashfs is an iteresting option for doing backups/cloning
because the compressed filesystem can also be reused to make a livecd or
livedvd. For normal cloning, I mount the squashfs and use rsync to copy the
files into a fresh ext3 partition.
This is interesting.. How is
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 08:46 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:07:35 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
The dd program knows nothing about partions but it will work with the
associated device file. I would use fdisk, mke2fs, and rsync.
I'd go with rsync too. It may well be slower
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
I've found that squashfs is an iteresting option for doing backups/cloning
because the compressed filesystem can also be reused to make a livecd or
livedvd. For normal cloning, I mount the squashfs and use rsync to copy the
files into a fresh ext3 partition.
This is
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:29:10 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
You should also note that dd is by far the slowest way of doing this,
partimage is a much better tool for cloning partitions.
But one thing about partimage, I tried it once and going from a 10GB
partition in partimage to 20GB
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 01:12:30 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
Yeah, partimage is nice the way that it skips empty blocks. Can it
clone directly from one partition to another or is an intermediate file
required?
It appears to want a file, but I imagine you could use /dev/stdin and /
dev/stdout as the
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 01:44:56 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
To do online backups of my desktop system I have a script that backs up
my whole root filesystem with the exception of some files (especially
some sensitive ones in /etc). I do separate backups of /etc.
Occasionally I use my squashfs
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:11:33 +0800
Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually I would use fdisk/mke2fs and tar rather than rsync since it's
much faster that way.
I'd suggest another option - use xfs and xfsdump and xfsrestore.
At the bottom of the xfsdump man page there are examples of
Bob Sanders wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:11:33 +0800
Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually I would use fdisk/mke2fs and tar rather than rsync since it's
much faster that way.
I'd suggest another option - use xfs and xfsdump and xfsrestore.
At the bottom of the xfsdump
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 18:23:30 -0700
Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bob Sanders wrote:
This method looks interesting. I found a quote from Linux Torvalds saying
dump can misbehave if there are dirty buffers. Has anyone experienced that?
I haven't used dump in five or more years, but
Hi,
I'm not at all clear from reading man dd whether it will work for
drives that are not the same size? For instance my current working
drive in onePundit-R is 8GB and has 3 partitions - boot, root and
swap. I'd like to copy these partitions to a new 80GB drive for use in
another Pundit-R.
1)
Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
I'm not at all clear from reading man dd whether it will work for
drives that are not the same size? For instance my current working
drive in onePundit-R is 8GB and has 3 partitions - boot, root and
swap. I'd like to copy these partitions to a new 80GB drive for use
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 18:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
On 6/15/05, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
I'm not at all clear from reading man dd whether it will work for
drives that are not the same size? For instance my current working
drive in onePundit-R
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 18:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
On 6/15/05, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
I'm not at all clear from reading man dd whether it will work for
drives that are not the same size? For instance my current working
drive in
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