Hi Grant, on Friday, 2007-01-26 at 09:47:51, you wrote: > My laptop is currently still copying everything to my desktop system > via tar and ssh.
That's good. dd would be easier on the HD in case it's breaking but if you have
a filesystem
error you'd still have to fix that after copying back. If the HD is not
about to die, tar (or rsync as Neil mentioned) is much better.
> When I ran rc this morning, I saw that ssh started so it must have
> stopped some time overnight as it usually does. The laptop was still
> running the tar | ssh command I had started the night before. Could
> the desktop be missing some of the laptop's data since the desktop
> wasn't running ssh all night, or would it "catch up" now that ssh is
> running?
If the connection didn't break on the laptop side (ssh|tar reporting a
broken pipe), you should be fine.
cheers!
Matthias
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