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New I'd use tar.
Tar I can make do what I need it to. I don't know cpio.

Incidentally, I've done this over an ad-hoc ssh pipe. Required some thinking to setup but it worked.

Wade.

Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
 
Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please

-- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne.

New Re: I'd use tar.
I have a bad feeling about tar. Not standard, sometimes doesn't copy 0 length files, etc. cpio is totally standard. But I really don't know which is better. Who else has needed to mv/cp a gigantic tree?
-drl
New I've done it on Linux.,
cp -pR does the honours, preserves security.

Note that that's GNU cp. Proprietary UNIX upholds the tenet that "if it don't suck ass, it ain't worth paying for", and cheerfully trashes the security.


Peter
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     tar vs. cpio - (deSitter) - (43)
         I'd use tar. - (static) - (2)
             Re: I'd use tar. - (deSitter) - (1)
                 I've done it on Linux., - (pwhysall)
         dd - (pwhysall)
         What I'd do. - (folkert) - (2)
             Re: What I'd do. - (deSitter) - (1)
                 Nope - (ben_tilly)
         What I'd be inclined to do - (ben_tilly) - (35)
             What he said. -NT - (static)
             Re: What I'd be inclined to do - (deSitter) - (33)
                 The CPU overhead is likely less than the network overhead. - (pwhysall) - (30)
                     Especially text... -NT - (Another Scott) - (4)
                         Not a given - (deSitter) - (3)
                             Even PKZip on a 286 running DOS could fly through text files - (Another Scott) - (1)
                                 Re: Even PKZip on a 286 running DOS could fly - (deSitter)
                             Doesn't matter - (ben_tilly)
                     In fact... - (ben_tilly) - (1)
                         Re: In fact... - (deSitter)
                     Your pipe is too small then - (broomberg) - (22)
                         Try different compression quality? - (ben_tilly) - (18)
                             Try? We do not try. We do. - (broomberg) - (17)
                                 An advantage of gzip is that it's easy to detect errors. - (Another Scott) - (1)
                                     If you MUST... - (broomberg)
                                 Thanks for the figures - (ben_tilly)
                                 Thanks, and questions. - (pwhysall)
                                 lzop vs. gzip - (pwhysall) - (12)
                                     Interesting - (broomberg) - (11)
                                         Seeing you tease Peter makes me aware that... - (ben_tilly) - (1)
                                             In person - (broomberg)
                                         What are happening to the 450s? - (folkert) - (3)
                                             Dunno. Ask Dave. - (broomberg) - (2)
                                                 I'm sorry Dave, but Dave's friend Dave says Dave's at... - (ben_tilly)
                                                 Thanks. -NT - (folkert)
                                         Ah, but in MY house... - (pwhysall) - (4)
                                             Not spam - (broomberg) - (3)
                                                 Still spam; just spam on dead trees. - (CRConrad) - (2)
                                                     "admirable or honourable" - Yup - (broomberg) - (1)
                                                         The fulfillment (sic) third, maybe. The rest? Nope. - (CRConrad)
                         That was my intuitive suspicion -NT - (deSitter) - (2)
                             And as usual - (broomberg) - (1)
                                 Well sure - (deSitter)
                 Beware spaces in filenames - (Arkadiy) - (1)
                     Already checked :) -NT - (deSitter)

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