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Date:      Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:18:20 +0200
From:      Thierry Herbelot <Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr>
To:        Kent Ho <kent@graffiti.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fastest way to Transfer data from HD to HD?
Message-ID:  <376F54DC.1F08FA24@telspace.alcatel.fr>
References:  <19990622084853.2191.qmail@graffiti.net>

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Hello,

If the disks are on the same machine, you can use dump and restore
(which will work even if the two disks have different geometries : dd
will not work).

You can also use "tar -cvf - <existing dir> | (cd <new dir>; tar xf -)"

	TfH


Kent Ho wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I want to transfer 6gigabyte worth of user account mainly for
> mail purposes to a new bigger harddisk.  What I want to know is
> what is the fastest and safe way to copy the data across?  I can
> do standard cp but will it be faster to use dd instead.  I don't
> use dd much and cp seems slow on FreeBSD.  There is a lot of sub
> directories to copy.
> 
> Recommendations and opinions welcome..
> 
> many thanks
> 
> Kent
> 
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