Nico De Ranter wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 11:42:19AM -0300, Marcello Mezzanotti wrote: > > Thomas Guettler wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 11:17:08PM +1000, Bill wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to > > > > mirror > > > > a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact > > > > > > > > > > man dd > > > -- > > > Thomas Guettler > > > Office: <guettli_NoSpam_interface-business.de> www.interface-business.de > > > Private:<guettli_NoSpam_gmx.de> http://yi.org/guettli > > > (Replace _NoSpam_ with @) > > > > > > -- > > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > what about rsync ?? > > > > Might not work for devices and such. Depends on what exactly you want to do. > If it's a one time copy dd will probably be faster anyway. > > Nico >
if both fs are mounted, i believe its the best way. and he can do a 2nd or even 3rd rsync to garantee that the fs are equal if not, rsync doesnt work :) marcello ps: sorry my poor english -- +------------------------------------------------+---------------------+ | Marcello Mezzanotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Amiga 1200/18Mb | | UOL System Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | AmigaOS 3.1 | | C, Pascal, PHP, Zope, SQL, Arexx Programmer | | | Star Trek, UNIX, Amiga Computers, BOFH | | | http://www.mezzanet.pt.eu.org ICQ: 1845241 | K6-2 450 64Mb | +------------------------------------------------+ Linux 2.2.16 | | Amiga: The Computer For Creative Minds | FreeBSD 4.1 | | Linux: The Choice of The Next Generation | | +------------------------------------------------+---------------------+ Oh my God, they killed INIT, you BASTARDS!!!!