On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 14:37, fsanta wrote:
I'm backing up a directory on our server to a clients hard disk. The directory is mounted on the client via nfs and contains subdirectories. The directory is around 1Gb. Sometimes I get a clean copy but sometimes I have missing files. Is it correct to assume that the backup should have the same file size as the original? Any ideas about the missing files and would ftp be a better bet? Thanks, Steve.
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A method I have used to copy files around uses tar as follows: (cd [source dir];tar cf - ./source)|(cd [dest dir];tar xvf -) This will copy all of the source files along with ownerships and perms, including special files ie. links and device files. -- Ken Schneider Senior UNIX Administrator Network Administrator kschneider@rtsx.com