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Hi Grant, |
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on Friday, 2007-01-26 at 09:47:51, you wrote: |
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> My laptop is currently still copying everything to my desktop system |
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> via tar and ssh. |
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That's good. dd would be easier on the HD in case it's breaking but if you have a filesystem |
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error you'd still have to fix that after copying back. If the HD is not |
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about to die, tar (or rsync as Neil mentioned) is much better. |
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> When I ran rc this morning, I saw that ssh started so it must have |
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> stopped some time overnight as it usually does. The laptop was still |
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> running the tar | ssh command I had started the night before. Could |
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> the desktop be missing some of the laptop's data since the desktop |
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> wasn't running ssh all night, or would it "catch up" now that ssh is |
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> running? |
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If the connection didn't break on the laptop side (ssh|tar reporting a |
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broken pipe), you should be fine. |
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cheers! |
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Matthias |
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