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From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier ROBERT)
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Subject: Re: Replicating system.
To: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray)
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> Now - (thinks) How do I best copy the contents of the two disks to the
> new SCSI? I have done this before by tar-ing to a tape and restoring,
> but a file or 10 in /var/... got bust. Same for dump-ing to a tape.

cd srcdir; tar cf - . | ( cd /dstdir; tar xvfpB - )	OR

cp -pR . /dstdir

> (I recall that one of the problem files was a socket(?) in
> /var/run/printer= with mode srwxrwxrwx)

Doesn't matter, /var/run/printer is recreated at each boot as /var/run
is emptied at boot time.

-- 
Ollivier ROBERT   -=- FreeBSD: the daemon is FREE! -=-   roberto@FreeBSD.ORG
      FreeBSD keltia 2.1.0-Development #2: Thu Dec 29 20:28:18  1994
             roberto@keltia:/usr/src/sys/compile/KELTIA ctm#235