Am 10. Dezember 2017 22:17:11 MEZ schrieb vincent delft <[email protected]>: >Hello, > >Did you tried pax ? >some thing like: pax -rw -pe <source> <destination> > >I don't know if this the best tool, but I'm using it to duplicate a 1TB >drive (having lot of hard links) onto an other one. >I've done it couple of time, and I've do not see issues. > >rgds >
Is "rsync" not an option? > > > > > > > > > >On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 7:03 PM, <[email protected]> >wrote: > >> Forgive problems with this email. >> I saw how my emails showed up on marc.info >> Scary. This is just temporary. >> >> OK. I've tried to use both methods and just don't >> get true duplication. >> >> tar >> It can't work with file and directory names >> that are OK in filesystem, but too long for itself. >> Quite a while back I lost a lot of unimportant files >> and directories that had absolute paths too long. >> Why is this happening with tar? Can this be fixed? >> If not, I'd like to add a note about that to the FAQ. >> >> dump >> I had to move /usr/local to a bigger partition. growfs, >> etc. I kept the /usr/local untouched and then dumped it >> to the new partition, expecting a true duplication. >> Nope. >> It changed all of the program symlinks permissions. >> Why is dump doing this? Can this be fixed? >> Otherwise, a note about this should be added to the FAQ >> also. >> >> Question: >> Can dd be used to do what I did with dump or tar? >> Smaller partition copied to a bigger partition. >> >> I'm willing to try and help out, but I'm going through >> both laptop and server hell at the moment. >> >> Thanks, >> Chris Bennett >> >>
