On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 08:37 -0400, Andrew Ferguson wrote: > Morgan Read wrote: > > Hello list ... > > Also, it may be a very naive question but why, when there are only two ... Well, like I said:-) > Morgan, > > It looks like you are using rdiff-backup to backup another rdiff-backup > repository. Are you sure this is what you want to do? That is not > something usually done. Perhaps I should explain my objective - duplicating a mirror. I used "cp -r", but this threw some exceptions like so cp: cannot create special file `BU2/home/morgan/.bittorrent/data/ui_socket.lnk': Invalid argument
After looking through the man page I thought I should heed the warnings about not writing a mirror with anything but rdiff, so backed it up again assuming the first incremental I did to the new mirror from source would sink the extra rdiff-backup-data directory, and the rest is history... So, is there a recommended way to duplicate a (fresh) mirror to avoid running rdiff-backup to the same media twice? Many thanks, M. -- Morgan Read NEW ZEALAND <mailto:mstuffATreadDOTorgDOTnz> fedora: Freedom Forever! http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview "By choosing not to ship any proprietary or binary drivers, Fedora does differ from other distributions. ..." Quote: Max Spevik http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/17/177220 RMS on fedora: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FreeSoftwareAnalysis/FSF
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