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On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 07:14:16PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.
Are you sure ? Last I remember, "cp -a" does not preserve some of the inode
data. Also, it does some file reordering.
Yes, most of these are inconsequential on a practical pov, but it is
still farther from cloning than using dump/restore.
Of course, if you want real cloning you would have to use "dd", but
that is _way_ beside the point here.
[]s
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Rodrigo Barbosa
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)
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