Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 07:37:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Christian Kratzer <ck@toplink.net> To: Steve Reid <sreid@sea-to-sky.net> Cc: Presence <presence@irev.net>, InvictaNet Customer Support <support@invictanet.co.uk>, Freebsd-ISP <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: move home dirs Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10010050734370.47362-100000@babylon.toplink.net> In-Reply-To: <20001004143806.A36544@grok>
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Hi, On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Steve Reid wrote: > On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 03:01:00PM -0700, Presence wrote: > > (cd /mnt/old/usr/home/ ; tar -cvlf - .)|(cd /usr/home/; tar xpf -) > > It moved everything across perfectly, including .dot files and > > permissions. > > I did something similar recently. What really impressed me: tar handled > hard links. I guess it keeps track of inode numbers that it has already > seen. > > Very good to know, if you want to copy a filesystem with (too many) > hard links. then of course you could use a dump restore combination which would do the right thing out of the box. So if you are moving the home partition of a machine you might just as well run dump over a ssh connection through a pipe into a local restore. Should be the fastest and at the same time most reliable way to transfer the data. Greetings Christian Kratzer Toplink -- TopLink Internet Services GmbH ck@171.2.195.in-addr.arpa Christian Kratzer http://www.toplink.net/ Phone: +49 7032 2701-0 Fax: +49 7032 2701-19 FreeBSD spoken here! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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