Philip Hallstrom wrote:


Not that I do this a lot, but I think you'll run into problems using tar, cp, and rsync when it comes to various special files or files with holes in them (sparse files).

rsync should work just fine in archive mode (not sure what u mean by sparse files though)
rsync -a


I've always read that dump/restore is the safest way to do something like this.

agreed - should be part of your daily chores anyway (dump I mean) ;)

Cheers,
Beto

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