Am 10. Dezember 2017 22:17:11 MEZ schrieb vincent delft 
<[email protected]>:
>Hello,
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>Did you tried pax ?
>some thing like: pax -rw -pe <source> <destination>
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>I don't know if this the best tool, but I'm using it to duplicate a 1TB
>drive (having lot of hard links) onto an other one.
>I've done it couple of time, and I've do not see issues.
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>rgds
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Is "rsync" not an option?

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>On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 7:03 PM, <[email protected]>
>wrote:
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>> Forgive problems with this email.
>> I saw how my emails showed up on marc.info
>> Scary. This is just temporary.
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>> OK. I've tried to use both methods and just don't
>> get true duplication.
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>> tar
>> It can't work with file and directory names
>> that are OK in filesystem, but too long for itself.
>> Quite a while back I lost a lot of unimportant files
>> and directories that had absolute paths too long.
>> Why is this happening with tar? Can this be fixed?
>> If not, I'd like to add a note about that to the FAQ.
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>> dump
>> I had to move /usr/local to a bigger partition. growfs,
>> etc. I kept the /usr/local untouched and then dumped it
>> to the new partition, expecting a true duplication.
>> Nope.
>> It changed all of the program symlinks permissions.
>> Why is dump doing this? Can this be fixed?
>> Otherwise, a note about this should be added to the FAQ
>> also.
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>> Question:
>> Can dd be used to do what I did with dump or tar?
>> Smaller partition copied to a bigger partition.
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>> I'm willing to try and help out, but I'm going through
>> both laptop and server hell at the moment.
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>> Thanks,
>> Chris Bennett
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>>

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