Moving an extreemly large file system

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Brian D. McGrew wrote:

> I'm taxed with moving a 200GB filesystem from one server to another.  If
> it wasn't so big I'd think nothing of it and use the told 'tar | rsh'
> trick but I'm a bit concerned since it's over 200GB and 730,000 files.
>
> Is it safe to use tar or should I use dump or a script and '/bin/cp' or
> what?

I'd probably use rsync(1).

>
> Thanks!
>
> -brian
>
> Brian D. McGrew { brian at visionpro.com || brian at doubledimension.com }
> ---
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>  really annoy those of us who do!
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