On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Brian D. McGrew wrote:
I'm taxed with moving a 200GB filesystem from one server to another. If
it wasn't so big I'd think nothing of it and use the told 'tar | rsh'
trick but I'm a bit concerned since it's over 200GB and 730,000 files.
Is it safe to use tar or should I use dump or a script and '/bin/cp' or
what?
I'd probably use rsync(1).
Thanks!
-brian
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