Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 00:17:33 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'cpdup' program, and question Message-ID: <199901260817.AAA14444@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199901260746.PAA05289@spinner.netplex.com.au>
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:I personally would *love* it to go into /bin or /sbin. I have lost count
:of the number of times that I've had to move trees with tar or cpio (and
:cpio with -Hnewc to get the 32bit device numbers). If it handles flags
:etc and does restarts, then even better!
:
:A tool like this will be far more useful than a stack of other things in
:the tree.
:
:Cheers,
:-Peter
Yup, though caviat: cpdup doesn't use streams like tar, cpio, etc...
it operates more like 'cp' in that it takes a source and destination
path.
We use it at BEST to maintain our 45+ FreeBSD boxes from a single
template machine via NFS ( the one thing I used NFS for at BEST ).
I'll put it up on my web page for review. Compile it up and run
'cpdup' without any arguments for help.
http://www.backplane.com/FreeBSD/
Note: the MD5 support is brand new, I just added it tonight.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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