19 Feb
2007
19 Feb
'07
2:14 a.m.
Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
As a safety mesurement you could clone the machine ("cp -a") to a
"cp -a" for cloning ? Errr, bad mistake.
"dump -0f - / | ( cd /newlocation; restore -f - )" is a much better idea on these cases.
The results should be pretty much the same on anything with GNU cp except that cp can copy to different filesystem types. It is a good idea to use the --one-file-system option and repeat for each partition.
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