[PLUG] Faster giant disk copy

Wil Cooley wcooley at nakedape.cc
Sun Aug 8 14:48:02 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 14:33, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> Is there a better way, or some non-standard disk copy utility out
> there?  For future use, I am thinking about building a perl wrapper
> around rsync that moves data in smaller chunks rather than a whole
> partition-full at a time.  However, if someone has already done
> something like this, why re-invent the wheel?

Have you tried tar-to-tar?  This is what you have to do on systems
without GNU cp.  It goes something like this:

tar cf - | (cd /wherever; tar xf -)

Wil
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Wil Cooley                                 wcooley at nakedape.cc
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