Re: One more

[Tighe <emry@accessus.net>]

I think that you can do this with a 

cd /backup; tar lcf / | tar xf -

I think.  If I am remembering the l option keeps the tar in that
filesystem only.  If that doesn't work, I would take a look at cpio.

hth

Tighe

>Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 00:32:54 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Mark <mark@bish.net>
>Reply-To: silug-discuss@silug.org
>To: Southern Illinois Linux Users Group <silug-discuss@silug.org>
>Subject: One more
>
>
>My / is getting trashed but I don't know how just to copy everything on
>that one partition to a secondary drive
>
>cp -a / /backup copies everything - not just from that one filesystem.
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