From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 22 2:24:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD5401529D for ; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 02:24:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id KAA31942; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:21:18 +0200 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id LAA21401; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:18:40 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA00278; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:07:02 +0200 (MEST) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr by telss1 (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id LAA05336; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:12:40 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <376F54DC.1F08FA24@telspace.alcatel.fr> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:18:20 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot Reply-To: thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr Organization: Alcatel CIT Nanterre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kent Ho Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fastest way to Transfer data from HD to HD? References: <19990622084853.2191.qmail@graffiti.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 - | (cd ; 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Thierry Herbelot (+33) 1 46 52 47 23 http://perso.cybercable.fr/herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message