Re: Disk full - moving rsnapshot root

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:00:59AM +1000, David Keegel wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 07:09:26PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> > cp will *not* do the job.
> I tried a test with "cp -a" (GNU cp 5.2.1) copying to a different file
> system, and cp -a seemed to preserve hard links (unchanged files were
> still hard-linked together on the destination).

Oh, interesting.  I know I tried it years ago and it Did The Wrong
Thing, so I guess that's been changed since.

> Or if you don't trust cp -a, how about 
>       cd /smalldisk ; find . -depth -print | cpio -pdlm /bigdisk

Cue mutterings about broken cpio on some platforms :-)

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