Welty, Richard wrote:
Can anyone suggest a way to copy a large directory structure, while
preserving symlinks and keeping memory requirements low?
try piping the output of a tar to the input of another tar,
tar cvf - <directory> | tar xvf -
where you'll need to wrap rsh or ssh around one of the tar commands
(and an associated cd to the correct directory), and root around in
the tar man page to get the flags right. i know this will work, i
just do it infrequently enough that i can't remember exact parameters.
Richard,
Thanks! This did it:
tar vcf - /backups | ssh root@fuscia tar xf - -C /
as described at
http://programming.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/03/23/1632257&tid=70&tid=85&tid=43
- Mike
