[Cialug] Venting

[Daniel Wittenberg]

Be careful with cp -a, if you have lots of data it will choke after
consuming large amounts of memory.   tar is the safest way I've found
over the years (and moved hundreds of gigs at a time with it safely).

Dan

On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 14:03 -0500, Chris Hilton wrote:
> cp -a


> On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 16:59 +0000, timwilson011 at mchsi.com wrote:
> > I did finally get it to install, finishing up about 9:30 last night.  Of course,
> > after copying files over from the old hard drives, that left me no time to
> > configure FC4 to be operational for me.  So I ended up putting the old hard
> > drives back in.  At least I have it installed and the files copied over.  I'll
> > have to copy over any files that change between last night and whenever I can
> > get back to it, but I'm sure that won't be that bad.  Setting up the firewall,
> > mail, web, etc. will be a bigger PITA.
> > 
> > I copied the files using a command similar to the following:
> > tar cf - directory | tar xvf - -C newdirectory
> > 
> > Anyone have a better idea, or is that pretty much the best way to go?
> > 
> > --
> > Tim W.
> >