To quote Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # # Past messages have detailed how to copy a file system from one drive to # another, but now I need to do it across the network. Of course I need to # preserve soft and hard links and device files. # # I do have a tape device here, but at 525Mb it's nowhere near big enough # for the job. I have ssh but not rsh. # # Is there a straight-forward way of doing this? Thanks for any pointers.
I'd suggest one of two methods: 1) 'umount <mounted filesystems you don't want copied: ie /proc>; tar c / > partition.tar' -or- 'umount <mounted filesystems you don't want copied: ie /proc>; (tar c / | gzip -9) > partition.tar.gz' if you've got more CPU power than network bandwidth. 2) and I'm not sure about this, but 'scp' would be good here. It will do on-the-fly compression. Just read the docs to double-check that it handles links and device files properly. It's part of 'ssh'. Dave
