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Subject: Re: [ILUG] How to copy some files
From: Mark Kilmartin <mrk@renre-europe.com>
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How about rsync.

It doesn't only work for remote files.

MArk


On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 14:28, Niall O Broin wrote:
> I have about 60G of data which I need to copy from one disk to another.
> However, I'm not sure how I should best copy it. The problem is the bulk of
> the data is images and most of these image have two directory entries i.e.
> there is a hard link to each file. If I copy them using cp -a or my usual
> favourite of find .|cpio -pmd other_dir it's going to copy each file twice,
> which is not what I want. dump / restore would take care of this if the
> source filesystem wasn't reiserfs :-( Any suggestions ?
> 
> 
> Niall
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