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From: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Backing up hard disk for transfer to new disk.
Message-ID: <644@bbxsda.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 90 14:48:51 GMT
References: <3714NU013809@NDSUVM1>
Reply-To: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Organization: Basis International,  Albuquerque, NM
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In article <3714NU013809@NDSUVM1> NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Greg Wettstein) writes:
>My question is basically: What is the best utility/procedure to use so that
>the contents of the 80 megabyte drive can be transfered to the 330 megabyte
>drive with a minimum of system disruption?
>
>Before I go on I should probably say that I do have a magnetic tape drive
>on the machine (Mountain).
>
>My main concern is not the /u filesystem because I plan on just using tar
                                                                       ^^^
I strongly advise that you use cpio instead of tar.  tar will not preserve
directory owners and permissions.  Also, tar does not handle device files
very well (cpio will).

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Scott Amspoker
Basis International, Albuquerque, NM
(505) 345-5232
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