From: Kyle Bader <kyle.bader@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] When copying an os to new disk
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:46:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <854dca5c1002260746k48e40be4pcc4d4b6ece79add2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ac129341002260359h2066deeby135975b1d1b19368@mail.gmail.com>
> I opted to reinstall from source that machine, which wasn't exactly a
> bad choice anyway. But as always, rtfm is good advice! Thanks (not
> sarcastic, except to mock myself).
Another option other than rsync or dd is to use tar:
tar cf - $old_dir | ( cd $new_dir: tar xf - )
tar cf - $old_dir | ssh $other_host "( cd $new_dir: tar xf - )"
--
Kyle
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-26 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-19 20:34 [gentoo-user] When copying an os to new disk Harry Putnam
2010-02-19 20:58 ` Daniel Troeder
2010-02-19 21:25 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-20 9:50 ` Xi Shen
2010-02-22 7:49 ` daid kahl
2010-02-25 17:59 ` daid kahl
2010-02-26 1:06 ` Stroller
2010-02-26 11:59 ` daid kahl
2010-02-26 15:46 ` Kyle Bader [this message]
2010-02-26 16:00 ` Alex Schuster
2010-02-26 18:13 ` Kyle Bader
2010-02-26 23:25 ` Neil Bothwick
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