Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 11:29:07 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: Steven Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com> Cc: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mjacob@feral.com Subject: Re: best way to migrate to a new disk Message-ID: <3B4ACAE3.456B49AC@i-clue.de> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107082006140.25228-100000@white.acl.lanl.gov> <014f01c108ac$cc2e7b80$50038c3f@eservoffice.com>
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Steven Ames schrieb: > > > > Don't use tar. It loses devices, can't handle holey files well and a > > > number of other minor clitches. Use dump instead. > > Hrm... what about 'rsync'? Does it suffer from the same problems as 'tar'? > I use rsync a lot because its incremental. This is off topic from migrating > to > a new disk, but I am curious... rsync won't handle holey files at all. Think about the space you're wasting. Stay with dump, or peruse dd. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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