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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Les Mikesell
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