[KLUG Members] Re: drive ghosting -- RedHat "bootnet" disk, afio/cpio, etc...

[Bruce Smith]

> Er, tar ... yuck! 

Not the stuff they put on roads, the Unix Tape ARchiver.  :-)

> Especially if you compress. 

I don't.  (except for files on disk)

> > (cd /home; tar clpf - .) | (cd /mnt/backhome; tar xpf -)
> > (cd /; tar clpf - .) | (cd /mnt/backup; tar xpf -)
> 
> I believe find|cpio using cpio's "pass thru" (-p) operation is
> faster.  E.g.:

I believe find|cpio & tar both are limited by the speed of my disks.

>   cd /srcfs
>   find . -depth -mount -print | cpio -pmdv /dstfs

"If you haven't found at least five ways to do the same thing In Unix,
you haven't looked hard enough."

I use tar because I'm more familiar with it, and it does the same job.

I know people who use "cp -a" and claim it works fine too.
(at least it's not "dump".  :)

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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