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copying filesystems
Matthew Walker said:
> something like
>
> cd /; tar -cpf - . | (cd /mnt/harddrive; tar -xpf -)
>
> how do I keep it from being an endless loop at /mnt/harddrive ??
Do it a filesystem at a time. If you have one big root filesystem,
that's easy... Just add "l" to the first tar (so "tar -clf - .").
Another thing that works nicely is rsync. In your example, you could
do something like "rsync -avx /. /mnt/harddrive/.". (If you don't
have it installed, rsync has come with the last couple of versions of
Red Hat, or you can get it from http://rsync.samba.org/.)
Steve
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