Date: Wed, 04 Jan 1995 21:34:18 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier ROBERT) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Replicating system. Message-ID: <199501041934.VAA08391@grunt.grondar.za>
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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 OK - this short-circuits the tape out of the loop. What happens to files with multiple links - major waste of disk space? > > (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. Good to know. What is this anyway? (Iknow, the name says it all, but I cannot fit it into the lpd/lpr/printcap scheme. If its in the man pages, I'll bloody shoot myself...) -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200
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