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On Fri Jun 8 18:25 , Albert Hopkins <marduk@g.o> sent: |
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>On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 19:01 -0500, jamesc@××××××××××××.com wrote: |
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>> On Fri Jun 8 16:38 , Dale dalek@××××××××××.net> sent: |
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>> Yeah, that's me, I do exactly the same until you issue the cp command where I do: |
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>> $>cd /mnt/oldstuff && tar cvjpf /pathtosomewhere/mystuff.tbz ./ |
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>> and then extract to the new directory. I do this out of habit mostly and, yes, |
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>> it is a useless step unless you want to store a copy somewhere for whatever |
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reason... |
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>> --James |
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>The one thing I mentioned is that I actually pipe tar to tar (tar -c ... |
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>| tar -x ...) which seems even more useless, but as I said I'm used to |
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>doing some things out of habit. Then I thought about why: the '-a' flag |
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>is not available on all *nices... I believe it's a GNU extension. So I |
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>probably got used to using the tar trick on a non-GNU system and got |
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>used to it because it works whether I'm using Linux or not. But if |
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>you're on a Linux system (that has rsync installed) then rsync is |
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>probably the nicer option. It's got even more options than GNU's cp. I |
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>actually 'alias cp="rsync"' on my Gentoo systems. |
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Ha. This is a good day. I have to laugh at myself for not utilizing rsync more; |
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for the last few years I've just been using rsync to backup/restore my /home and |
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key config files to my fileserver (while at home). Never even considered using |
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it for local operations. Nice. I have the habit, also, of using the most basic |
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stuff since I'm usually on all manner of UNIX{like} boxes during the day. |
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Thanks, |
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--James |
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