On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 04:56:07PM -0400, Patrick Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Mike Markley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP: 0xA9592D4D 62 A7 11 E2 23 AD 4F 57 27 05 1A 76 56 92 D5 F6 GPG: 0x3B047084 7FC7 0DC0 EF31 DF83 7313 FE2B 77A8 F36A 3B04 7084 Without freedom of choice there is no creativity. - Kirk, "The return of the Archons", stardate 3157.4
