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On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Michael C. Toren wrote: >Also, just to be safe, I would use: > > (cd /src && tar cvpf - *) | (cd /dest && tar xvpf -) ...which is, in fact, the recommended method in the Tips-HOWTO: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Tips-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.6 One time, to be safe, I did it using the 'cd && tar' method, and the 'cp -a' method, comparing the directory structure using something along the lines of 'diff <(ls /olddir) <(ls /newdir)', and the only thing that seemed to be different was with some symbolic links (the differences were due to the fact that the links were handled properly). IIRC, the cp -a was faster. The tar method has going for it, of course, the fact that it is portable to other Unices, since the -a option is peculiar to GNU cp. >I end up using lines similar to the above quite often when moving and >copying directory structures. I also end up piping tar to gzip -c, and >then to netcat to do network backups. Fun fun fun stuff with Unix. :) BTW, have you checked out amanda for network backups? I've not used it myself, but my boss does and swears by it. There is a Debian package available. Bill -- >Ever heard of .cshrc? | "Linux means never having to delete That's a city in Bosnia. Right? | your love mail." -- Don Marti (Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc | http://www.billjonas.com/ on the intuitiveness of commands.) | http://www.harrybrowne.org/ ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://plug.nothinbut.net Announcements - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug