[aklug] Re: Quick copy when you can't use rsync or scp?

Quoting Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us>:

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> Hey guys, I was setting up Gentoo on a box for my cluster project, and I
> screwed up my partitioning. I need to pull the system files off, 2GB in
> a complex directory structure, onto another PC on the network, fix the
> partitioning, and then put them back.
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> My first thought was rsync, but (surprisingly) the installation disk
> doesn't have it, and apparently rsync has to be on both machines. My
> second thought was scp, which supports recursive directory copying. But
> then I found out scp is hardwired to follow all symbolic links (this
> option cannot be turned off) and I am afraid of what freaky affects that
> might have.
>
> So, what is the fastest and most convenient option available to me, in
> your opinion? Or perhaps am I being too paranoid about the SCP issue?
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Is it impossible to add an "extra" partition that you could cp the =20
data to that is directly on the machine?

If your creating a LVM, you could then add the "extra" partition to =20
the LVM so it doesn't go "wasted".

Just an idea.

Mike B.

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Received on Wed Feb 24 07:24:54 2010