Phil Mocek wrote:
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 04:58:15PM +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
What I would like to do is copy an exact replica of /home and /etc and all of their contents from the 20Gb to the 7.5Gb.
I'm surprised this hasn't yet come up in this thread, but it's pretty common to use rsync for the task Hylton described. It can be used for remote as well as local file transfers.
Anyone who is not familiar with rsync should definitely look into it.
http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/ Tnx Phil for the pointer to rsync. I am unfortunately looking for a more graphical tool to backup or copy the files from one location to another whilst preserving the file permissions etc.
So far the cp -a /source/dir dest/dir is doing the trick. Rsync looks much more complicated CLI tool and on installing it from the CD's and reading a few of the man pages made me think the cp option I am using now is FAR better. Tnx again. -- The Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Licenced ex-Windows user (apart from Quicken) Registered Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 ========================================================================