From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 10 2:27:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9814537B409 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 02:27:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id LAA28667; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 11:34:46 +0200 Message-ID: <3B4ACAE3.456B49AC@i-clue.de> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 11:29:07 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Ames Cc: Ronald G Minnich , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mjacob@feral.com Subject: Re: best way to migrate to a new disk References: <014f01c108ac$cc2e7b80$50038c3f@eservoffice.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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