On 23 October 2010 00:32, Przemek Klosowski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Since I need to install Slackware-13.0 on the new drive, and it was >> installed on the existing main drive only a couple of days ago, I'll just >> 'cp -R ...' from the existing drives to the new one. > > Ahem, cp -a or something more inspired e.g. tar ./ -cf - | tar -C /newdisk > -xf - > because the date stamps on files are actually useful. >
Out of interest, if Rich copies all the dated backup directories to the new hard drive, will the hard links be preserved between the daily images that contain the same files or will each file copy as unique? Jenny _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
