On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 12:43 -0700, Daniel Vogel 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). > > > > > What about dd? it woud help too? > Recommending dd for moving a filesystem between machines does not seem like a good choice to me. Dd makes a bit-for-bit copy of everything. It will be exactly the size of the source and may have things you don't want. For example, using dd to copy an entire 80gb drive to a 160gb drive would likely mess up the ability to access the 160gb of space since dd also copies not just the data but the drive geometry and the partition table as well. Similar slightly different problems may occur if you just copied a partition itself. To copy a filesystem to another filesystem I would recommend rsync or scp. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
