[Cialug] Moving Linux from one disk to another

[Barry Von Ahsen]

I like rsync for intra-disk copies, just because of the inevitable 
mid-copy permission error/unavailable file/etc, then you don't have to 
recopy the first half of the directory.

I can guess where Paul's coming from, though, once you figure out the 
syntax quirks ( "src/ dest", "src dest/" and "src/ dest/" are _very_ 
different commands), it's great

ooh, I've got it:
tar/cp:rsync::$EDITOR:vi - once you learn it, it's the only way :)

-barry


Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> I love rsync. I use it for backups on my home network by rsync'ing 
> machines to a file server. I was a bit surprised to see it recommended 
> for copying from one disk to another though. In my experience, rsync is 
> wonderful for synchronizing large file sets where not much has changed. 
> But for an initial copy it is very slow. I haven't objectively 
> benchmarked it recently, but it seems to take about twice as long as 
> tar or cp. Usually when adding a new machine to an rsync backup plan i 
> do the initial file copy using tar piped through an ssh connection, and 
> then use rsync for subsequent updates.
> 
> On Friday September 5 2008 09:52, David Champion wrote:
>> I was with Paul... until he said he hates rsync. The only thing I hate
>> about rysnc is most windows admins don't know what it is, so I can't
>> rsync to their servers.
>>
>> -dc
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