RE: moved to new disk, now amanda wants to do level 0's on whole system

2003-11-16 Thread Dana Bourgeois
EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Siegerman > Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 12:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: moved to new disk, now amanda wants to do level > 0's on whole system > > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:20:23AM -0500, Jay Fenlason wrote: >

RE: moved to new disk, now amanda wants to do level 0's on whole system

2003-11-15 Thread Dana Bourgeois
EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Siegerman > Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 12:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: moved to new disk, now amanda wants to do level > 0's on whole system > > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:20:23AM -0500, Jay Fenlason wrote: >

RE: moved to new disk, now amanda wants to do level 0's on whole system

2003-11-14 Thread Ron Snyder
> either. To copy directory trees, I usually use "( cd /fromdir ; tar > cf - . ) | ( cd /todir ; tar xpf -)", which preserves modification > times, and permissions. I definitely am a fan of tar copying, but wouldn't recommend the above (as written). The brief explanation is that you really want t

Re: moved to new disk, now amanda wants to do level 0's on whole system

2003-11-14 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Eric Siegerman wrote: > But all of those -- tar, cpio, rsync -- are kludges. Is it just > me, or do other people also find it ludicrous that 30+ years on, > UNIX still doesn't have a proper copy command? Huh? You just showed there are enough flavors to suit just about any

Re: moved to new disk, now amanda wants to do level 0's on whole system

2003-11-14 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:20:23AM -0500, Jay Fenlason wrote: > Also, cp/fr may not have correctly reset the modification times of the > files when it copied them. Oh, and they may not handle links well > either. To copy directory trees, I usually use "( cd /fromdir ; tar > cf - . ) | ( cd /todir

Re: moved to new disk, now amanda wants to do level 0's on whole system

2003-11-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 05:26:26PM +0100, Christopher Odenbach wrote: > > Hi, > > > The times reported by an ls -l seem to be sane, and of those perms I > > checked, they were preserved ok. The major hiccup I had was that cp > > doesn't do ".name" files > > Of course "cp" does copy dot-files. I

Re: moved to new disk, now amanda wants to do level 0's on whole system

2003-11-14 Thread Christopher Odenbach
Hi, > The times reported by an ls -l seem to be sane, and of those perms I > checked, they were preserved ok. The major hiccup I had was that cp > doesn't do ".name" files Of course "cp" does copy dot-files. I think you may have stumbled over the shell asterisk. If you say "cp -rp * /somewher

Re: moved to new disk, now amanda wants to do level 0's on whole system

2003-11-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 14 November 2003 09:20, Jay Fenlason wrote: >On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 01:23:12AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings all; >> >> See subject, Which of course is leading to a 90% failure rate as >> the whole system has around 40Gb, but the tapes are only 4Gb's. >> >> What happened is tha

Re: moved to new disk, now amanda wants to do level 0's on whole system

2003-11-14 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 01:23:12AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > See subject, Which of course is leading to a 90% failure rate as the > whole system has around 40Gb, but the tapes are only 4Gb's. > > What happened is that I put in a new 120 Gb drive, 2x the size of the > one I

Re: moved to new disk, now amanda wants to do level 0's on whole system

2003-11-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 14 November 2003 04:37, Sven Rudolph wrote: >Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> What happened is that I put in a new 120 Gb drive, 2x the size of >> the one I took out, mainly because the root partition was full, >> and no room to readjust things was available. >> >> So the diskl

Re: moved to new disk, now amanda wants to do level 0's on whole system

2003-11-14 Thread Sven Rudolph
Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What happened is that I put in a new 120 Gb drive, 2x the size of the > one I took out, mainly because the root partition was full, and no > room to readjust things was available. > So the disklist is unchanged. Why does amanda want to do a level 0 on

moved to new disk, now amanda wants to do level 0's on whole system

2003-11-13 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; See subject, Which of course is leading to a 90% failure rate as the whole system has around 40Gb, but the tapes are only 4Gb's. What happened is that I put in a new 120 Gb drive, 2x the size of the one I took out, mainly because the root partition was full, and no room to readj