[plug] dump: master/slave protocol botched ?

[Nick Bannon]

John Summerfield wrote:
> If only one machine's involved, does dump/restore have any advantage over 
> cp -a ?

Yes - it's a filing system specific, backup specific tool designed
especially for the job and it frees you a little from the worries
about whether your particular set of options is quite going to do the
job. <grin> In addition, it gives nice time estimates during dumping and
the option of interactively picking and choosing directories to extract
during the restore.

Still, if it's not working, one of the more reliable combinations is ;
(cd sourcedir && tar c .) | (cd destdir && cpio -im)

(given GNU tar and GNU cpio, which on a Linux machine, you'll have)

Sticking a rsh or ssh in the middle is fine.

Nick.

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