On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 03:38:24AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 02:14:44PM -0500, Steve Robbins wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 06:21:04PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > ... > > > The disadvantage of this command is that it doesn't preserve hardlinks. > > > > Really? Mine preserves hard (and soft) links. > > strange...reading...hm it says it does...trying...and it does, how come? > > I'm sure that just days ago whilst copying my mirror with cp -a to > a new drive the size of the new mirror exploded, but using good old > tar the size of the new mirror was about the same as the old mirror. > I think I checked some hardlinks, and sure enough they had vanished, > but in the light of this new test I'm not so sure anymore. Anyway, > cp -a seems to work. > > -- > groetjes, carel
if you don't mind the extra overhead of rsync compile requirements, rsync -av /from/ /to/ with --exlude or --delete if needed and even remote hostnames like [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/from/ --rsh=/to/bin/ssh works very nicely.. it is also incremental, so next time the whole copy process will only update the changes (much faster) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
