On Sep 5, 2017 9:45 AM, "Paul Heinlein" <heinl...@madboa.com> wrote:
... rsync over a network can handle the situation where your UID/GID on the source system is different from that on the destination. Typically "cp" will be somewhat faster while rsync will be safer and more flexible. Personally, I'm a fan of using tar over ssh for initial copies, because tar handles hard and soft links gracefully and quickly: cd /home tar cf - yourdir | ssh your.new.host "cd /home && tar xf -" # if you're really seeking safety, then run sync too. # XXX: note lack of trailing slash in source directory. rsync -av /home/yourdir your.new.host:/home My first thought on this subject was tar and a pipe. The man page for tar _used to_ show this succinctly but when I tried to find it in Ubuntu 16.04 some months back it appeared to have been deprecated, so I gave up. I had tried rsync a few years ago. Even though I've Unixed and Sunosed and Solarised and Linuxed for decades, as a hobby if not at work, I couldn't grock rsync. Something about needing a service, that I did have running, which is probably a faulty memory... Yeah, lame, wasn't an actual need, was just curious, your mileage hopefully varies. I look forward to revisiting rsync and conquering this dragon along with the rest of the intrepid PLUG folks. NealS _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
