On Thu, 2022-10-27 at 16:06 +0200, Maarten de Vries wrote:
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Maarten, you did not reply to the mailing list ;).

> On 27/10/2022 16:02, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > 5. Verify the copy by running
> > 
> >    # diff -r --no-dereference /mnt/old/ /mnt/new/

PS: I'm not sure, if diff might warn about missing sockets or similar.

If "cp -a" returned exit status 0, the copy is most likely ok, running
diff isn't necessarily needed.

If tar --xattrs... returns exit status 0, you can't trust it. After
doing a backup by tar always (try to) open the archive. However, making
a backup using tar first and then restoring from the archive doesn't
make sense at all.

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