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New What I'd do.
Use an rsync daemon and make the request on the new machine. And have it verify as well.

That way, you'd be sure to get it right. Not that I don't trust tar or cpio (I turst them for nightly backups period).

Just that doing the tar etc unles done to a network pipe to the other machine... mean you gotta have *THAT* much more space on both machines.

rsync, you only need a few extra MB.

A better option might be:
If this is HP-UX you could also setup NFS export on the source machine and nfs mount the file system on the destination machine then just do a local rsync as well.

Oh... and if you have ssh on both machine (full suite that is) you could scp them as well. Or if you actually have rsh and rcp available on the machines you could just do them the old fashioned rcp method as well.
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Expand Edited by folkert Sept. 23, 2004, 10:48:01 AM EDT
New Re: What I'd do.
I heard rsync blows chunks performance-wise since it's read-file/write-file one at a time.

Just checked, not an option in any case (on this system). I have sudo but must be judicious. Installing rsync might get me escorted out. (Hell, viewing IWETHEY might get me escorted out.)
-drl
New Nope
rsync handles multiple files at a time and is very fast as long as you turn the right options on and off. This can take research to figure out. For instance I usually don't use -a because that implies -I, which causes it to expensively do an MD5 on every single file. I'm happy knowing that the files have the same size and modification time even though theoretically that could be wrong.

rsync is also clearly The Right solution if you're going to have to resynchronize the data.

However when I sit down with it I always need a while to figure out what exact combination of flags I really want to use this time.

Cheers,
Ben
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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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