On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, Richard Adams wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Renaud OLGIATI wrote about, Re: HD mirroring utility?:
> > I tried to follow your line, but get from tar an error message to the
> > effect that it "cowardly refuses to create an empty archive."
> What is possably happening is you have not though enough about what
Marc > wrote.
>
> His "example" is really a perfectly vaild example, its a question of
> seeing the directory "old" as what you want to copy, and the new as the
> directory to which you want to copy the files to. Both directorys must be
> there on your machine.
>
> As to your text empty archive, that i cannot seem to simulate, so just what
> are you doing.?? Exacht commands would be informative.
>
> Of course i dont want to step on Marc's toes here, but sometimes Marc
> answers mails after a few days, hence my reply to you.
I did the following:
mounted as /mnt/toto the target partition, and created on it all the
dirs I want to copy (/bin, /dev, /etc etc.)
The issued the command:
$ tar cfp - -C /bin . | tar xfp - -C /mnt/toto/bin
and got the message I refered to.
I'm using Mandrake 7.0
Cheers,
Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River.
--
Renaud OLGIATI No act of kindness,
Cerro Cora 3662 no matter how small,
Asuncion (Paraguay) ever goes completely unpunished.
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