I'm trying to copy a directory tree from one mounted hard disk to
another. I want to copy the contents of a directory named "backups" on
a secondary SCSI HD to one of the same name on an external USB mass
storage device.
The source is /mnt/sdb1/storage/backups
The target is /mnt/mirror/storage/
Root changes to the source "backups" directory and runs the
following:
tar cf - . | (cd ../../../mirror/storage/backups tar xvf -)
./
Nothing happens. No error message about not being able to navigate the
path to find the directory, no sound of disk activity, no resulting
files.
So I tried:
tar -l -cpf - /mnt/sdb1/storage/backups | tar -C
/mnt/mirror/storage/backups -pxf -
This did create a backup, but reproduced the path (/mnt/mirror/
storage/backups/mnt/sdb1/storage/backups) and gave me a lot of errors
about not being able to copy symlinks and early on some errors about
not being able to reproduce ownership. When I try to reduce the source
to ".", tar complains about the empty source.
Haines Brown
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